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To Celebrate the start of the 2013 season, I'd like to say with the SportsHoopla community 20 John Madden qoutes that will stay in your hearts and memories forever. I'm sure there's plenty more of them.

1. "There's a lot of letters in Ladanian Tomlinson"

2. “A team should never practice on a field that is not lined. Your players have to become aware of the field's boundaries.”

3. "The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage."

4. "If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss."

5. "It's 3rd and 20..They need a good play here."

6. "See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands."

7. "When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!"

8. "Ruben Brown made that play there....well I mean he missed the guy completley but he was able to create just enough room for Thomas Jones by whiffing. The air he created on the miss gave Jones enough space to score."

9. "If the quaterback throws the ball in the endzone and the Wide Receiver catches it....... It's a touchdown."

10. "If this team doesn't put points on the board I don't see how they can win."

11. "Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense."

12. "Some yards is better than none yards?"

13. "Here's a guy, here's a guy who when he puts his contacts in, he can see better"

14. "Usually the team that scores the most points wins the game."

15. "Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game."

16. “When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.”

17. "They're either going to run the ball here or their going to pass it."

18. "The Dallas Cowboys have 2 types of plays in their playbook. Passing plays, and running plays."

19. "When its raining the field gets wet, then all of a sudden everyones running slower"

20. "Brett Farve is Brett Farve"
 

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John McKay Quotes

1 - In response to a question about his team's execution - "I'm all in favour of it."
2 - On an interception thrown by Steve DeBerg in 1984 that cost the Bucs a game against the Giants - "It was thrown to nobody. Well, it was thrown to somebody, Harry Carson. But he happened to be playing for the New York Giants at the time. It would have been a good pass if Harry had been playing for us."
3 - After a particularly heavy loss - "The bus leaves in an hour - anyone who needs a shower, take one."
4 - On losing a key game - "I told our players that there were 700 million Chinese people in the world who didn't even know the game was played. The next week, I got five letters from China asking "What happened?"
5 - After the Bucs broke their 26-game losing streak - "Three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs."
6 - On recruiting his son John to play for USC and then the Bucs - "I had an advantage - I slept with his mother."
7 - On the prospect of a late-season trip to Green Bay - "Going there is like winning the 98th prize in a beauty contest with only 97 prizes."
8 - On hearing how Buc kicker Pete Rajecki was nervous about McKay watching him in the 1976 pre-season - "That's unfortuntate as I plan on attending all the games."
9 - At a post-game press conference in 1976 "You guys don't know the difference between a football and a bunch of bananas."
10 - The following week after a media member has dropped off a case of bananas at his door - "You guys don't know the difference between a football and a Mercedez-Benz."
11 - “It bothers me that they (the national media) have picked us to be the worst team in football. Because what they are doing now is challenging your physical and your mental capacity and my ability to coach you. Now, this hurts me. Second-worst team, I could stand it. But not the worst team.”
12 - “We’ve broken down the expansion teams and they’ve averaged winning 2.7 games their first year, which to me is rather difficult. I figured out the 2, but the .7 has got me wondering what the hell is going on.”
13 - "Kickers are like horse manure. They're all over the place."
14 - "We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."
15 - "Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast."
16 - "Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corky is emotional as hell but can't play football worth a damn."
17 - On his team's blocking strategy: "Hold when you're at home and don't hold when you're on the road."
18 - "If you have everyone back from a team that lost 10 games, experience isn't too important."
19 - On how coaching an expansion team is a religious experience: "You do a lot of praying, but most of the time the answer is 'no.'"
20 - “I’ll probably take a little time off and go hide somewhere. We will be back. Maybe not this century, but we will be back and we will be a better football team.”
21 - On how badly the Bucs looked in losing to the Steelers, 42-0, “There were times I felt like leaving the stadium and hitchhiking home.”
22 - On the weaknesses of linebacker Hugh Green: '`He's not twins.''
23 - On opening days: "Opening games make me nervous. To tell the truth, I'd rather open with our second game.''
24 - After a series of questionable calls helped Notre Dame tie No. 1 USC 21-21 in 1968, McKay was asked about the officiating. He answered, "I'm not surprised. The referee is a fine Catholic fellow by the name of Patrick Murphy."
 

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Here's a couple more from John Madden....

"OK, you look at the Bengals...you have Chris Johnson, Chad Johnson, Eric Johnson and Joe Johnson. That's what's wrong with the Bengals: To many Johnson's."

"OK you have the A-hole on the either side of the Center, then you have the B-hole on either side of that and what you wanna do is take the ball and shove it right up the A-hole".

I miss the goomer.
 

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One of the best announcers ever.
 

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All seem common logic...good ole John Madden.
 

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Hope he comes back to the booth someday, even if it's just a game. Wont happen, but it would be cool. One of the greatest.
 

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tough actin tinactin
 

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Who could ever forget the Turduncen.....a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuff inside a turkey.....stuffed inside your home....boom!
 

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Who could ever forget the Turduncen.....a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuff inside a turkey.....stuffed inside your home....boom!

I was just about to ask if anyone had the Thanksgiving game quote where he talked about cooking turkies and how to stuff them. It was probably a 15 minute conversation too.
 

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One of my favorites was when they showed 6' 8" Flozell Adams and it went quiet for a second right before John observes "Those are the smallest numbers I've ever seen on an NFL jersey."
 

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=facVh75-vW4"]john madden & the bucket - YouTube[/ame]
 

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"If you don't convert a fourth down, you probably won't keep the football."
 
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