John Madden
John Madden
John Earl Madden is a former American football player in the National Football League, a former Super Bowl-winning head coach with the Oakland Raiders in the American Football Conference of the NFL, and a former color commentator for NFL telecasts. In 2006, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching career. He is also widely known for the long-running Madden NFL video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988. Madden worked...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth10 April 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
When Art walks in here, he knows what it is. He doesn't have to learn the nuances. He'll learn the coaches, the players and the football. The two of them, that's why this is going to work.
He could do it as a player and he could do it as a coach, because they respect him. That's what it's all about.
When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!
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 always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.
When you're talking about the Super Bowl, this is the biggest thing we'll ever do. You have to have all your focus on that.
If this is the final, we'll have a final final and a final final final.
I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.
Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
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.