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John Madden Quotes

It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 10, 1936

Topics

Someone Long You Three Why Explain

I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

Tea Tired Dare Drink Sit Get

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

Family Day Wife Hair Clothes My Own

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Childhood Poetry Grow Out Nasty Few

I say I'm the strongest in the NFL, but the yoga has helped me to a point where I can't be moved off the line, because I know how to get rooted in the ground and use the energy around me.

Me Energy Know Say Line Ground

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Corruption Poverty Attention Cancer

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

Family Home Growing Up Small Growing

To say that the grocery business is cutthroat would be a major understatement.

Business Say Would Understatement

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

Life Sunset My Life Say Always Seen

When you get old and play every day like I did, it's hard. Hard on your body. You start to get sore. You gain weight. But that makes me work harder, be stronger in my mind, and show I can still play.

Asdrubal Cabrera

Work Day Mind Me Start Stronger

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Swami Vivekananda

Nature Only Large External Internal

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Business Government Present You Tax

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Money Advice American Friends Take

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