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.

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

There's so many kids who only know me from the video game. And they want to know if I'm home - and if I have a video game I can give them on Halloween. And sometimes they're surprised to learn there actually is a 'Madden.'

I like to hear about what people do. That's more interesting than talking about what the hell I do.

I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.

It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game.

I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'

There's so many kids who only know me from the video game.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

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.

The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.

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.

They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.

I think comparisons are odious.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

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.

Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.

It's a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coach.

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

When people watch football, they're looking for fun things.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name.

If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling.

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

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

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.

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

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.