Tom Waddle
speaker
233 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Tom Waddle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was never a star, so I came in with the approach that I have to make sure that I provide the analysis and the delivery of the analysis in a manner in which that it resonates.
After people forget about you as an athlete, people probably know me more being in the broadcast industry than being a player.
I was only in the league for six years.
I've been doing this for almost 35 years.
So they remember you more.
They identify with you more as a media member as opposed to a former player.
So that grace period is very fleeting.
So I would tell anyone,
What got you to the NFL?
Even the most talented guys bust their ass.
They're hard workers for the most part.
You know, you could tell the stories that Walter Payton's the greatest running back of all time.
He's also the hardest worker on that team.
Jerry Rice, the greatest wide receiver of all time, was running sprints the day after they lost a NFC title game in the back of the 49ers.
The best in the world are always usually the hardest workers.
So you have to be prepared, like whether you're doing a three minute sports cast or like I said, when I was flying out to Los Angeles every morning, Saturday morning during the football season, we would preview every game.
So we were doing 16 games.
It was a four-hour flight.
I created a card of each matchup for every game on the way out.
I was so over-prepared statistically and factually that it was an exercise of abundance that really...
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