Quotes by John Madden - Page 3

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.
John Madden / Football Player
Gaps
Losing
Parades
Super Bowl
White House
Winning
Bowl
Invite
Super
Teams
Throw
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I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda.
John Madden / Football Player
Age
Smarter
Against
Ball
Bet
Neck
Watch
George
Older
Quicker
Rid
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There is a difference in being in shape and being in football shape. Any one can out on the field and run around , but once you start getting hit and have to get up then you find out the difference between being in shape and football shape.
John Madden / Football Player
Motivational
Running
Football
Nfl
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Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'
John Madden / Football Player
Thanksgiving
Broadcasting
Tradition
Woe
Good Me Game
Days
Favorite
Heck
Pretty Good
Spent
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I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
John Madden / Football Player
Sports
Baseball
Basketball
Golf
World Cup
Life Good Sports
Life Good World
General
Cup
Specifically
Tried
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When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.
John Madden / Football Player
Tough
Sure
Fix
Direction
Fold
Gets
Goes
Quit
Saying
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Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.
John Madden / Football Player
Running
Coordinator
Defense
Quarterback
Worried
Account
Ball
Beat
Big Part
Run
Gets
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I've often said, 'If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.' Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.
John Madden / Football Player
Perfect
Quarterback
Raiders
Said
Lot
Had
Drive
Game
Cooler
Often
Pick
Raider
Snake
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We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.
John Madden / Football Player
League
Passing
Philip
Quarterback
Standing
Uniforms
Drew
Instead
Sideline
Tom
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I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
John Madden / Football Player
Enjoyed
Football
Football Coach
Player
Pro Football
Life Work World
Life Work Football
Broadcaster
Coach
Luckiest
Pro
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When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.
John Madden / Football Player
Computers
California
Tools
University
Football Me Game
Extension
Hawkins
Showing
Textbook
Trip
University Of California
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Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.
John Madden / Football Player
Football
Giving
Influence
Davis
Al
Assistant
Biggest
Biggest Influence
Life Age Football
Coach
Gave
Head Coach
Professional
Professional Football
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I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.
John Madden / Football Player
Baseball
Basketball
Embarrassed
Five
Football
Games
Grandkids
Myself Always Keep
Myself Always Football
Play Baseball
Some Things
Urge
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Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.
John Madden / Football Player
Not Fair
Super Bowl
Winner
Accept
Ring
Bowl
Fair
Lump
Super
Teams
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If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
John Madden / Football Player
Best
Class
Genius
Grammar
Grammar School
Guy
High School
Recess
School
Super Bowl
Just
Anything
Everyone
Never
Before
Bowl
Coach
Win
High
Fired
Listens
Super
Whose
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You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.
John Madden / Football Player
Medical
Brain
Equipment
Rules
Anytime
Hit
Eliminate
Sport
Studies
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Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.
John Madden / Football Player
Football
Perfect
Player
Situation
Standing
Television
All My Life
Life Football Game
Bringing
Closer
Life Better Football
Coach
Sideline
View
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Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.
John Madden / Football Player
Sports
Boxes
Fans
Luxury
Pay
Television
Adds
Advertiser
Pass
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I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'
John Madden / Football Player
Amazed
Someday
Experience Home Always
Watched
Scores
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We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.
John Madden / Football Player
Legal
Assumption
Late
Protect
Quarterback
Referee
Sole
Television
Ball
Excuses
Hits
Says
Throws
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If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you're the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you're probably going to want to play 'Madden NFL.'
John Madden / Football Player
Games
Involved
Nfl
Type
Video
Game
Interested
Read
Watch
Sport
Video Game
Wants
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I have this set-up at my house where I have one big movie theater screen that's 9 ft. by 16 ft. Then, I have nine 63-inch monitors around it; four on either side and one underneath. So I get all nine one o'clock games, and I can switch them onto the big screen. That's what I do on the Sundays during the season.
John Madden / Football Player
Movie
Big Movie
Big Screen
Games
House
Movie Theater
Nine
Theater
Side
Either
Onto
Screen
Sundays
Switch
Underneath
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Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.
John Madden / Football Player
Sports
Baseball
Basketball
Company
Computer
Football
Games
Including
Playing Games
Three
Football Game Day
Sports Football Game
Everyone
Game
Early
Hawkins
Saying
Trip
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The thing that I always respected about Bruce Arians was, when he was at Pittsburgh, he let Ben Roethlisberger decide what he liked. I used to do that. You can put something in and force-feed it to a quarterback. But if he doesn't like it and have his heart in it, it's not going to be as good as when he really likes something.
John Madden / Football Player
Likes
Pittsburgh
Quarterback
Good Always Heart
Ben
Bruce
Good Heart Always
Respected
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Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you.
John Madden / Football Player
Defense
Interactive
Isolated
Shot
Producer
Pick
The Only Thing
Whoever
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I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn't a local thing. You could really feel the states become united. We became the United States of America.
John Madden / Football Player
New York
America
Bus
Four
Planes
September
States
Three
Trade
United
United States
United States Of America
World Trade
World Trade Center
Time World Country
Across
Time World Feel
Hit
Became
Days
By The Time
Time World New
Center
Drove
Later
Local
Realized
Seemed
York
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As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.
John Madden / Football Player
Family
Jobs
Memories
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I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.
John Madden / Football Player
Thanksgiving
Block
Gourmet
Heard
New Orleans
Taste
Traditional
Addition
Seen
Booth
Brought
Butcher
Came
Glenn
Introduced
Orleans
Smelled
Turkey
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