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" 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
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Someone
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" When people watch football, they're looking for fun things. "
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" 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
" I would never be one to critique the announcers when I watched games. I try to watch the play and listen to the broadcasters and what they are pointing out. I was never one to say this one was good or bad. "
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Bad
Play
" 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. "
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Firm
Drill
Helmet
" Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. "
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Blind
Worry
" 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. "
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Playing
Standing
Football
" I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself. "
John Madden
Myself
Stupid
Perfect
" 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
Want
Television
Now
" It's a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coach. "
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Get
Coach
Easier
" Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it. "
John Madden
Great
Job
Done
" When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to. "
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Go
Going
You
" To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. "
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Me
Field
Discipline
" 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
" I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids. "
John Madden
Education
Work
Like
" 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
Saying
Direction
Fix
" 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. "
John Madden
Feeling
Go
Green
" 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
" 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.' "
John Madden
Know
Me
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. "
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Up
Nothing
Passion
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Thought
Win
Best
" If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker. "
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Work Hard
Well
Lead
" If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. "
John Madden
Mud
Team
You
" 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. "
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Work
Feel
Life
" 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. "
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People
Years
Coaching
" The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. "
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Players
Break
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