John Madden Quotes

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• Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
• Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.
• The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
• Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
• If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
• That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.
• If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
• The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
• The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
• When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
• I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
• 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…
• I think comparisons are odious.
• I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.
• 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…

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