{"author":"John Madden","author_id":"John+Madden","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.","author":"John Madden","tags":["comedy","football","funny","goalline","john-madden","running","sound-effects","teams"],"id":13976,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.","author":"John Madden","tags":["society","champion","anything "],"id":19917,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.","author":"John Madden","tags":["winner","loser","difference "],"id":52333,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.","author":"John Madden","tags":["luxury","television","you "],"id":77137,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.","author":"John Madden","tags":["good","new","taste "],"id":80662,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Madden","tags":["life","good","football "],"id":99078,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they're playing division games, so you limit travel. Now the question is, should you play Sunday night before a Thursday night?","author":"John Madden","tags":["football","night","thursday "],"id":153285,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.","author":"John Madden","tags":["coach","sure","some "],"id":160658,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.","author":"John Madden","tags":["experience","coaching","coach "],"id":177995,"author_id":"John+Madden"},{"text":"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.'.","author":"John Madden","tags":["people","said","years "],"id":194851,"author_id":"John+Madden"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}