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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'
I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.
In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.
I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.
In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.
I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.
I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
I'm a player, the coaches coach.