John Madden Quotes

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw it.

John Madden

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• When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Best
  • Door
  • Walk

• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Never
  • Goal

• My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Military

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Different
  • American

• I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Service
  • Own

• At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Country
  • Day
  • Boy

• I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • School
  • Light

• My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Enjoy Life

• He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Book
  • Want
  • Friend

• They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • World
  • Championship
  • Japan

• I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Future

• I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Always
  • Never
  • Guitar

• I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Time
  • Family
  • Happy

• It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Remember

• A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Son
  • Teenager
  • Soldiers

• Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Justice

• On that subject I am coy.

  

  Aaron Burr

• I go to the gym rather early with a workout pal. I get there at 7, or a little before, and do weights and a little cardio for an hour, five days a week.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Gym
  • Workout

• The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Truth
  • Stop

• One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Respect
  • Problem
  • Enough

• I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Giving
  • Rose

• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

  

  Joshua L. Liebman
  • Values
  • Maturity
  • Pleasures

• You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw it.

  

  John Madden