I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill.
Interpretation
John Madden emphasizes the importance of age-appropriate training in sports.
This quote reflects John Madden's conviction that young children should not be subjected to potentially harmful or overly complex drills, such as tackling, that are not suitable for their developmental stage. It advocates for a more thoughtful and gradual approach to sports training, prioritizing safety and understanding over aggressive techniques.
In practice
During a sports training seminar, this quote can be used to stress the importance of age-appropriate practices.
Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'
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.
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.
Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to the 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.
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.'
Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
What an astonishing thing a book is.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
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