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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

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John Madden
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: April 10
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When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
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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.
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When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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The best feeling is watching a real football game, because the games they show in the movies aren't real.
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Winning is a great deodorant.
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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.
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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.
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at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.
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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.
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He got up looking out of his earhole!
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