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" I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching. "
John Madden
Education
Experience
Coach
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" Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it. "
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Done
" 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
Playing
Standing
Football
" 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.' "
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Home
Know
Game
" 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
" 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. "
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Football
Physics
You
" Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. "
John Madden
Horse
Blind
Worry
" The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started. "
John Madden
Know
History
Best
" I like to hear about what people do. That's more interesting than talking about what the hell I do. "
John Madden
People
Hell
Interesting
" I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. "
John Madden
Few
Never
Just
" If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker. "
John Madden
Work Hard
Well
Lead
" 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
" I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself. "
John Madden
Myself
Stupid
Perfect
" 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
Late
Television
You
" The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. "
John Madden
Society
Success
Only
" 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. "
John Madden
New
Protection
Test
" You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw it. "
John Madden
You
Catch
Ball
" 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
Run
Deep
Free
" 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
Thought
Win
Best
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
John Madden
Time
Back
Believe
" 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
" 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. "
John Madden
Firm
Drill
Helmet
" I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. "
John Madden
Sure
Been
Coach
" 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. "
John Madden
Everyone
You
Look
" 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
Basketball
Football
Baseball
" I think comparisons are odious. "
John Madden
Think
Comparisons
I Think
" When people watch football, they're looking for fun things. "
John Madden
Watch
People
Fun
" In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius. "
John Madden
Me
Oakland
Room
" 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