John Madden Player Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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