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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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John Madden
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: April 10
American Football Player
Football Player
Austin
Minnesota
John Earl Madden
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I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
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Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.
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I think comparisons are odious.
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Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.
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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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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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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.
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You can't win a game if you don't score any points.
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He got up looking out of his earhole!
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When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!
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The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.
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