John Madden
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.
I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.
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.
If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.
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.
Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
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.
I like to hear about what people do. That's more interesting than talking about what the hell I do.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name.
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.
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.
I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.
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.
The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.
The thing that I always respected about Bruce Arians was, when he was at Pittsburgh, he let Ben Roethlisberger decide what he liked. I used to do that. You can put something in and force-feed it to a quarterback. But if he doesn't like it and have his heart in it, it's not going to be as good as when he really likes something.
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.
There's so many kids who only know me from the video game.
Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.
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.
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.
at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.Collection: Team
Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.Collection: Funny
The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.Collection: Funny
If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.Collection: Running
If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown.Collection: Funny
You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.Collection: Running
I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.Collection: Funny
Here's a guy who when he runs, he moves faster.Collection: Funny
You can't win a game if you don't score any points.Collection: Funny
The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.Collection: Yards
Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.Collection: Funny
Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game.Collection: Games
When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!Collection: Funny
Winning is a great deodorant.Collection: Sports