193 Quotes by John Madden

"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."

"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."

"I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."