John Madden Quotes
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It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
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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.
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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.'
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.
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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.
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I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
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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.
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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.
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There's so many kids who only know me from the video game.
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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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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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The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
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I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
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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.
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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.
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They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
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Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.