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" A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name. "
Position
Name
Football
" 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. "
Life
Opportunity
Me
" 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. "
Run
Deep
Free
" Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big. "
New
Protection
Test
" Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink. "
Days
Opening
Games
" Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson. "
School
High School
Lesson
" Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. "
Watch
Coaches
See
" Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave. "
Tie
Discipline
Short
" Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. "
Horse
Blind
Worry
" Even when I was a little kid, I hated to dress up. I hated to put on regular shoes. I wanted to play all the time. I hate to wear any kind of coat or sweater. I've never liked hot. I've never liked to be warm. "
Shoes
Dress
Hate
" Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system. "
Seeing
Time
You
" Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across. "
Football
Physics
You
" 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. "
Life
Think
My Life
" I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids. "
Education
Work
Like
" I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job. "
Think
Know
Job
" If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker. "
Work Hard
Well
Lead
" If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.' "
Know
Me
Someone
" If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling. "
Time
Back
Believe
" If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic. "
Everyone
You
Look
" 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.' "
Play
Game
Know
" If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. "
Mud
Team
You
" If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life. "
Think
My Life
Life
" 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. "
Thought
Win
Best
" I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums. "
Feeling
Go
Green
" 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. "
House
Games
Big
" I like to hear about what people do. That's more interesting than talking about what the hell I do. "
People
Hell
Interesting
" I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill. "
Firm
Drill
Helmet
" I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got claustrophobia. I don't go in high buildings. I don't do those things. I'm just myself, whatever that is. "
Think
Die
Fly
" I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. "
Sure
Been
Coach
" 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. "
Work
Feel
Life
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