John Madden quotes:

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

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.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

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.

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

We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

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.

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.

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.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

Guess what the Redskins have? You know, I take the bus to the games, we park in the parking lot where the visiting team parks. So I go out there after the game and they have a food truck there! And the guy comes over and he cooks food for the Redskins, and they come out to the parking lot before they get on the bus and they go to the food truck!

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.

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.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

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.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

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.

You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

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.

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

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.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

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

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

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.

Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember all the times I got stung by a bee.

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.

If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss.

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

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.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

He would have scored a touchdown if he hadn't been tackled right there.

If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown.

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.

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'

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.

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.'

I think comparisons are odious.

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've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.

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.

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.

at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations.

I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

There is a difference in being in shape and being in football shape. Any one can out on the field and run around , but once you start getting hit and have to get up then you find out the difference between being in shape and football shape.

Here's a guy who when he runs, he moves faster.

Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.

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.

It's a big deal. ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it .

Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game.

There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

When its raining the field gets wet, then all of a sudden everyones running slower

As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

Winning is a great deodorant.

From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back.

Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

Usually, the team that turns the ball over less will hold on to the ball more

Some yards is better than none yards?

The best feeling is watching a real football game, because the games they show in the movies aren't real.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

There's a lot of letters in Ladanian Tomlinson

Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.

They'll score if they can just get into the endzone.

See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

He might want to watch where he lands when tackling that guy, because he could really hurt his hand if it gets stepped on.

The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.

Give something that wasn't expected.

He got up looking out of his earhole!

Boom, boom, foom, poom! He just ran right at 'em!

In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.