75 Madden Quotes

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Famous Madden Quotes

The game honors toughness — Brad Stevens

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity. — Vince Lombardi

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. — Tom Landry

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time. — Arnold J. Mandell

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. — Hayden Fry

Act like you expect to get into the end zone. — Joe Paterno

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. — Sue Lawley

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. — Wim Crouwel

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. — Jose Mourinho

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi

The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard — Al Davis

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins. — Johan Cruijff

EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world. — Claudio Reyna

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar. — Dennis Miller

If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year? — Duane Thomas

Short Madden Quotes

  • Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. — Tobias Wolff
  • Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them. — Alfred Stieglitz
  • War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't. — Jeffrey Archer
  • My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary. — Michael Strahan
  • I love John Madden, because he makes me feel smart. — Frank Caliendo
  • I made the grandkids laugh. John Madden finally liked me! — Frank Caliendo
  • Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening. — Paul Theroux
  • I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex. — John Baldessari
  • A day on a film set is maddening. — Maggie Siff
  • Worse even than your maddening song, your silence. — Sylvia Plath

John Madden Quotes

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well. — Jim Otto

'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, 'These Foolish Things', by Deborah Moggach. — Tena Desae

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game. — Robert Kiyosaki

[ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a distance. ... It must have been maddening to be married to a guy like that, but you could at the same time argue that characteristic kept the world from being blown up. — Chris Matthews

A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic. — Chuck Klosterman

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More Madden Quotes

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war? — Daniel Berrigan

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal! — Tony Robbins

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening — Daphne Zuniga

Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow. — Norman Geisler

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete — Kay Redfield Jamison

~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~ — Kelli Williams

Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story. — John Grisham

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. — George Bernard Shaw

The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and spend time, that excellence is elusive. It's a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your life, and I don't succeed all the time. But I do try. — Ben Affleck

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity. — Quentin Crisp

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum. — Hunter S. Thompson

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love — Taylor Swift

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime! — Lord Byron

Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth! — Wanda Landowska

I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black) — Ted Hendricks

I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening. — Benjamin Carson

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.' — John Madden

I'm not going to lie and say that I'm good at Madden. There are some good players out there. There are some good players on the team. I get skunked all of the time. — Calvin Johnson

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. — Cory Doctorow

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence. — Orson Welles

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year. — Fred Melamed

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden. — Jason Kidd

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares. — Swami Vivekananda

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis. — Chris Paul

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. — Joan D. Vinge

When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will. — Euripides

Free thyself from the mighty attraction- The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex. Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . . — Sayings

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge. — Terry Pratchett

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat. — Hunter S. Thompson

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me. — Jerome K. Jerome

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss. — Stephen Jay Gould

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us. — Gene Wolfe

Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe. — Guy P. Harrison

Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess. — Elizabeth Hoyt

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. — Christopher Morley

I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam. — Chris Paul

Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense. — David Baldacci

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