John Madden Playing Quotations

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

A lot of guys took it personally, myself included. I wasn't playing my best hockey at the time and we have a chance to redeem ourselves and pay Larry back in a way.

They look like there's no life in them, no passion. I don't know how hard these wide receivers are playing for him.

I kind of figured that before. It's not a surprise. Why wouldn't you? We've got a great record going and we're playing well and we're responding to him.