Madden Quotes:

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Evil, Evil Thoughts, Madden

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

source: Interview with Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 17, 2002.

topic: Basketball, Games, Play, Madden

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: Rocks, People, Green, Packers, Green Bay

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

- Michael Strahan

source: "Talking Points: Clemens On Viagra & More" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

topic: Jobs, Ambition, Salary, Craziest, Madden

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

- Kyril Bonfiglioli

source: Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.18, The Overlook Press

topic: Wine, Thinking, Wife, Funny Wife, Madden

I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby.

- Michael Strahan

topic: Girl, Baby, Years, Madden

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

topic: Thinking, Guy, Rays, Hall Of Fame, Madden

I love John Madden, because he makes me feel smart.

- Frank Caliendo

source: "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. March 30, 2006.

topic: Smart, He Makes Me Feel, Feels, Madden

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

- Mark Twain

topic: Hate, Book, Writing, Novel Writing, Pride And Prejudice Book

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

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Men, Madden

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

topic: Coffee, Black, Ottomans, Horsemen, Ottoman Empire

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

topic: Games, Video, Remember, Madden

I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.

- Will Poole

topic: Football, Sleep, Games, Madden

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

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics

topic: Love, Turtles, Land, Cypresses, Myrtle

I made the grandkids laugh. John Madden finally liked me!

- Frank Caliendo

topic: Laughing, Grandkids, Made, Madden

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

- Chris Paul

topic: Sports, Nba, Games, 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

topic: Lying, Team, Player, Madden

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

source: Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.151, Macmillan

topic: Powerful, Passion, Charm, Madden

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.

- Robert Griffin III

topic: Team, Play, Guy, Pick Me, Madden

The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.

- Drew Brees

topic: Athlete, Player, New Orleans, Special Places, Madden

With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

- Michael Strahan

topic: Kings, Player, Years, Madden

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mother, Children, Eye, Pray For Me, Sick Children

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

source: Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

topic: Football, Fun, Rap, Madden

The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge

- Drew Brees

topic: Taken, Talking, People, Madden

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

- Jeffrey Archer

topic: War, Writing, Madden

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

topic: Football, Horse, Practice, Wwi, Madden