Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
John Madden
School
High School
Lesson
Related Quotes:
" The only things that smell good are fat and sugar. Tofu being boiled doesn't smell good. Anything that smells good is fattening. "
John Madden
Things
Sugar
Good
" 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
Drive
Day
Snake
" 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. "
John Madden
Think
Die
Fly
" Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. "
John Madden
Stand
Class
Winner
" 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
Heart
You
Quarterback
" Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink. "
John Madden
Days
Opening
Games
" Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it. "
John Madden
Great
Job
Done
" I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half. "
John Madden
Learn
You
Coach
" 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. "
John Madden
Position
Name
Football
" 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
Strength
Watch
Age
" It's a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coach. "
John Madden
Get
Coach
Easier
" Justin Smith was one of the most underrated players in the NFL for what he did. He would sacrifice and do the dirty work, then someone else would clean up off it. "
John Madden
Sacrifice
Clean
Someone
" Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense. "
John Madden
Up
Nothing
Passion
" Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that's when they really start playing. "
John Madden
Play
Think
Start
" In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it. "
John Madden
Never
Coaching
Football
" The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. "
John Madden
Players
Break
Sports
" 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
You
New York
America
" It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game. "
John Madden
People
Years
Coaching
" 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
Home
Know
Game
" Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. "
John Madden
Watch
Coaches
See
" If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. "
John Madden
Mud
Team
You
" Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. "
John Madden
Horse
Blind
Worry
" I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. "
John Madden
Sure
Been
Coach
" 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. "
John Madden
Football
Physics
You
" To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. "
John Madden
Me
Field
Discipline
" 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. "
John Madden
Think
Know
Job
" 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
Life
Opportunity
Me
" 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
House
Games
Big
" 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
Saying
Day
Baseball
" 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. "
John Madden
Think
My Life
Life