John Madden Quotes (71 Quotes)

Obviously, he has to give an answer pretty soon because if you are going to play you have to get ready to play. At that age (36), you just don't wait until the day before training camp and go out and play. You have to start getting ready. The older you are, the sooner you have to start getting ready. So I think that's going to be a key. Is he starting to get ready to play.

I filled my tank (Wednesday). I was shocked by the cost when I drove away from the pump.

I think she's inevitably more confident and in control of what she's doing.

But I wouldn't be surprised if there was a trade. There are a number of teams that could use him.. .. There are a lot of moving parts in this that could include the draft and could maybe include Brett Favre.

Don't worry bout' the mule being blind, just load the wagon

A night like this comes around once in a blue moon.

The three dumbest things in sports--artificial turf, domed stadiums and the wave.

Being partners with education means bringing business volunteers in to our schools to show that the economics of life and business are relevant to present and future success.

These muscles won't propel our cars yet, but they could operate the windows and door locks in fuel cell vehicles, or could serve as replaceable artificial muscles in lifelike robots.

Nah. Those names are all Irish. Sounds more like a funeral parlor.

I think all of the events today can be filed under unbelievable, I guess.

Everybody feels the same way let's make this last one a good one.

We could see he was getting madder and madder as the game went on. I thought we did a good job on him. We just tried to play him honest.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

A team should never practice on a field that is not lined. Your players have to become aware of the field's boundaries.

I didn't see holding. There may have been holding, but it wasn't in that picture.

the best analyst of any kind in sports television history.

It's been a long time since our power play struggled (like this). At one point during this season, we were (performing well) on the power play and things were going great. Right now we just can't seem to find the back of the net.

It's a big deal. ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it.

I suppose it's a terrific thing and also a kind of curse as well,

I am kind of picking up where he left off this year, too. Get the ball when the game is on the line, that's what it's all about. That's the game, that's what you have to love about it.

The point, said Bill Nielsen, who oversees marketing for the Xbox 360, is to help a game player convince the women in the family that this is for you, too, not just for me to play Madden, ... Here are some things you might want to tell your wife this thing does.

Whether that's fair, that's how it is. Today, these quarterbacks are on top of the world. Next week, it'll be different.

They're fighting for their lives. It's no secret if they lose, they go home. So, we want to go out there and play hard. A desperate hockey team is the most dangerous and that's the way they're going to be on Saturday.

It's a nice feeling any time you score in the playoffs to help your team. It just happened to be short-handed goals.

I was asked to do a (film) production of the play in London, it popped into my head suddenly that it would be a great part for Gwyneth to play. It's a great role, ... Obviously for me Gwyneth's performance is a definitive one and an extraordinary one.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

It is something that you have to contend with, obviously, but in Proof I don't see Gwyneth, I just see Catherine - I just see the character,

Nothing changed in our game plan except we didn't have to follow Jagr around all night.

It's a special feeling to get a hat trick in the playoffs.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

That's the sign of him being the ultimate professional. ... I never had to feel that I was in the middle (of Michaels' decision). I really appreciate that.

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

I have been doing this a long time and when I went to ABC to do 'Monday Night Football,' I thought I would finish my career there, ... But when the NFL did this new television deal, I looked at 'NBC's Sunday Night Football' package, and I thought this really fits me well.

I was so happy when I heard Al was coming to NBC. These last four years have been as enjoyable as anything could be.

I think the biggest difference is Marty has been a little bit sharper the last couple of games. At key moments he's held us in the game and given us a chance to win and we're going to need that if we're going to go far in the playoffs.

Special teams always play a huge role and this is the first year we have the new rules implemented and they've been calling them pretty tight in the playoffs and it's amazing how a call here or a call there can be the difference in a game. So you have to be really disciplined and your special teams have to be on the ball if you're going to compete and move on and win hockey games.

That's what I was telling Sara, it's an honor to go into the Hall of Fame with Reggie White. I had as much respect for Reggie White as any player who ever played the game. He was one of those guys who was a good guy off the field, good guy in the locker room, nice to the equipment guy, a gentle man who would go out and play like hell.

I think perhaps it's a relationship that's not marked by a great need to interfere with each other all the time,

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.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds, ... If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

I'm not going to make a lot of sense and I don't care. It comes from my heart. I am humbled and grateful and thankful. I just got to sit down. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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

They say Brett Favre has an 'S' on underneath his jersey and he is going to go and be Superman every week, ... You can't. I don't think he has lost anything, though. I study Brett Favre a lot and watch everything. You see that he's older now. Can he still move Yes, he can still move. Can he still throw the ball with the same velocity Yes, he can still throw the ball with the same velocity. So the Packers' lack of success is not about Brett Favre. He doesn't have a lot of guys around him right now.

I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.

There's a lot more shots hitting our net than what we're accustomed to. I don't know how many shots we averaged in years before, but we're getting upwards of 35 and 40 shots now, so I think it's making a big difference.

This is my first time playing them, but it's a big deal in the area. It's good for hockey. It's good for the business of hockey. It's great for fans in the area. I think they enjoy this. Regardless of what the outcome of the series will be, it will be talked about for a long time.

He had been a 15-year-old boy and he watched it happen from his garden -- 600 Italian soldiers and 13 officers shot by machine gun in the space of three minutes. And their bodies were left. He has never been able to erase this from his mind.