“Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to a football unila...” — John Madden Quote

“Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to a football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback's idea.”

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

“Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.”

“Both multiplayer games and online forums have this property of virtual anonymity. Other people can't really see you; they don't really know who you are. And so the sort of social moderating mechanisms in real life, and your desire not to offend people around you, don't really adjust.”

“You've got to be able to adjust to the league.”

“I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.”