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When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
John Madden
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
John Madden
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
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.
John Madden
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
John Madden
To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.
John Madden
Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.
John Madden
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.
John Madden
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.
John Madden
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.
John Madden
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
John Madden
If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
John Madden
I think comparisons are odious.
John Madden
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.
John Madden
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.
John Madden
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden
Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.
John Madden
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
John Madden
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
I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
John Madden
