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John Madden
American
Entertainer
Born:
Apr 10
,
1936
Coach
Football
Game
Good
Me
You
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Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.
John Madden
Worry
About
Horse
Blind
Wagon
Just
Being
Load
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
Work Hard
Guy
Lead
He
Well
Talker
Anything
Hard
Play
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
John Madden
Sewer
Easy
Through
Road
Goes
Street
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden
Sports
Rules
Fewer
Break
Coach
Players
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
Good
Smell
Sugar
Fattening
Only
Smells
Being
Anything
Things
Fat
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
Best
History
You
Getting Older
Live
Older
About
More
Longer
Know
Knowing
Sport
Been
Getting
Where
Thing
Things
Started
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
Game
Sports
Three
Everyone
Trip
More
Computer
Hawkins
Football
He
Football Game
Up
Going
Want
Games
Company
Including
Baseball
Early
Started
Playing
Playing Games
Basketball
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.
John Madden
Life
Work
World
Job
My Life
Every
Broadcaster
Once
Has-Been
Guy
Never
Had
Football
Football Coach
Part
Football Player
Feel
Since
Like
Been
Pro
Did
Pro Football
Then
Really
Coach
Luckiest
Ever
Enjoyed
Player
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
Big
Side
Nine
Sundays
Onto
House
Underneath
Around
Big Movie
Get
Big Screen
Screen
Where
Movie
Either
Theater
Movie Theater
Them
Then
Games
Season
Switch
Four
Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.
John Madden
Best
You
Discipline
Down
Clean
Supposed
Shave
Knowing
Tie
Doing
Jump
Short
Coat
Raiders
Third
I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.
John Madden
Education
Experience
Put
Lot
Coach
Coaching
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
History
You
Game
Feeling
Half
Believe
Back
Madden
Would
Never
Had
Also
Half The Time
Go
Cover
Been
The History Of
Curse
Cursed
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
Day
You
Game
Win
Drive
Snake
Think
Would
About
Perfect
Had
Pick
He
Said
Quarterback
Lot
Than
Often
Cooler
Raider
Raiders
Ken
Kenny
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
Way
Tackling
Drill
Firm
Firm Believer
Learn
Should
Helmet
Believer
Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to a football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback's idea.
John Madden
Pressure
Not Knowing
Adjust
Would
Football
Head
Head Coach
Idea
Nobody
Knowing
Without
Ball
Quarterback
Anything
Coach
Even
Amount
To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.
John Madden
Me
Discipline
Field
Football
Occurs
Off
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.
John Madden
Good
Thanksgiving
Seen
Addition
Booth
Introduced
Brought
Never
Had
Put
Glenn
New
Smelled
Got
Block
Gourmet
Came
Traditional
Heard
New Orleans
Taste
Turkey
Then
Butcher
Orleans
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden
Day
You
Bad Day
Defense
Backs
Bad
See
Dirt
Had
Mud
Team
People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.
John Madden
You
People
Win
Lose
Hell
Broadcasting
Say
People Say
Lot
Than
Same
Bigger
Coaching
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
You
Age
Older
Would
See
Bet
About
Never
Had
He
Smarter
Know
Ball
Got
George
Quicker
Just
Against
Rid
Watch
Neck
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
Time
You
World
Three
Country
Become
September
Local
Later
States
Those
Seemed
Could
Feel
Drove
New
Days
Like
Became
Trade
Hit
America
York
New York
Center
Bus
Planes
Realized
Really
Across
United
United States
United States Of America
Thing
Four
World Trade
World Trade Center
By The Time
The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.
John Madden
Time
Separation
Make
Ball
Quarterback
Lot
Quickly
Get
Moves
Gain
Rid
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
John Madden
Teacher
Would
Some
Had
Sure
Been
Form
Coach
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.
John Madden
Life
Game
People
Better
My Life
Situation
Think
Sideline
Television
All My Life
Would
Would-Be
Having
Perfect
Football
Like
Been
Get
Closer
Coach
View
Standing
Player
Bringing
Watching
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
Genius
Too
Oakland
Davis
Had
He
Ron
Room
Al
I like to hear about what people do. That's more interesting than talking about what the hell I do.
John Madden
People
Hell
About
More
Like
Talking
Hear
Than
Interesting
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