John Madden Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I think comparisons are odious.”

“That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.”

“If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.”

“If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.”

“Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.”

“I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”