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John Madden
American
Entertainer
Born:
Apr 10
,
1936
Coach
Football
Game
Good
Me
You
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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.
John Madden
Time
You
Protection
First
Big
Back
Running
New
First Thing
Pass
Test
Lot
Get
Any
The First Thing
Whether
Rookie
Thing
Played
Even when I was a little kid, I hated to dress up. I hated to put on regular shoes. I wanted to play all the time. I hate to wear any kind of coat or sweater. I've never liked hot. I've never liked to be warm.
John Madden
Time
Hate
Shoes
Kid
Kind
Hated
Wear
Dress
Dress-Up
Never
Put
Hot
Liked
Up
Any
Wanted
Little
Warm
Sweater
Little Kid
Regular
Coat
Even
Play
When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
John Madden
You
Arm
Ball
Go
Hit
Gets
Going
Where
Want
Your
Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.
John Madden
Time
You
Live
Every
Every Time
System
Out
Seeing
Atmosphere
About
Something
Audience
Go
Get
Front
Unfold
Theater
Your
I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
John Madden
Work
Education
Kids
Like
Younger
Special
Special Education
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
Me
Feeling
Field
Soldier
Those
Bay
Like
Go
Chicago
Green
Green Bay
Get
Stadiums
Places
Really
Certain
Special
Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.
John Madden
You
Sports
Fans
Luxury
Pay
Adds
Television
Out
Something
More
Through
Take
Advertiser
Boxes
Pass
Always
Been
Up
Than
Then
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
Me
Age
Opportunity
Giving
Gave
Has-Been
Guy
Davis
Football
He
Head
Head Coach
Been
Get
Influence
Biggest
Biggest Influence
Mean
Then
Coach
Professional
Professional Football
Al
Assistant
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.
John Madden
Me
Game
Class
Fans
Looking
Films
Tools
Out
Trip
About
Hawkins
Write
Computers
Had
Football
California
Got
Making
Came
Textbook
Going
Taught
Them
Coaching
Showing
Extension
University
University Of California
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.
John Madden
Experience
Broadcasting
Directly
Never
Had
Football
Been
Years
Lot
Really
Coaching
Watching
I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
John Madden
Life
Good
Sports
World
My Life
Enjoy
Tried
General
Football
Like
Got
Lot
Cup
Very
Just
Golf
While
Really
Baseball
World Cup
Play
Specifically
Basketball
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.
John Madden
School
College
Long
Right Road
Way
High
College Football
High School
Only
Football
Road
Long Way
Go
Right
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.
John Madden
Me
Game
People
Out
Remembered
Since
Announcer
Knowing
Got
Been
Years
Fewer
Just
Video
Video Game
Coach
Coaching
Even
Ever
Started
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
Myself
You
Say
Embarrassed
Out
Some
Some Things
Something
Football
Learned
Always
Got
Go
Five
Urge
Them
Grandkids
Games
Baseball
Keep
Play
Play Baseball
Play Basketball
Play Football
Things
Watching
Basketball
Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
John Madden
Better
Ours
All-Star
Opening
Days
Does
Stink
Than
Games
Baseball
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.'
John Madden
Home
Game
Experience
Sit
Every
Those
TV
Someday
Something
Guys
Could
Never
Like
Know
Because
Said
Always
How
Amazed
Doing
Scores
Any
Games
Watch
Watched
Watching
Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to the 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
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.
John Madden
Good
Try
Broadcasters
Say
Out
Bad
Would
Critique
Pointing
Never
Announcers
Listen
Games
Play
Watch
Watched
I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'
John Madden
Sports
People
Old
About
Tackle
Only
Over
Like
Talking
Around
Does
Said
Go
Years
Lot
Going
Where
Riding
Belong
Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.
John Madden
Best
Good
You
Win
Sometimes
Winner
Other
Everyone
Once
Ring
Super
Super Bowl
Between
Over
Fair
Bowl
Accept
Lot
Get
Not Fair
Teams
Lump
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
Myself
Fear
Fly
Whatever
Think
Flying
Those
High
Admit
Vulnerable
Buildings
Got
Go
Die
Going
Just
Afraid
Things
Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'
John Madden
Good
Day
Thanksgiving
Me
You
Game
Own
Every
Our
Broadcasting
Say
Spent
Favorite
Pretty
Pretty Good
Never
Part
Since
Days
Got
Woe
Tradition
Get
Heck
There's so many kids who only know me from the video game.
John Madden
Me
Game
Kids
Only
Know
Video
Video Game
Who
Many
Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.
John Madden
Great
You
Matter
Job
Jim
Great Job
Put
How
Done
Coaching
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