Famous Quotes

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

John Madden on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by John Madden

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

• "The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."

• "That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl."

• "The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."

• "I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher."