Gridiron Quotes

• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden.

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  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dream   Blessed   Eden  

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.

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  Garry Kasparov

  Success   Simple   Decision  

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football and sports emphasis in general in this country, and that is, I thank God I was warring on the gridirons of the Midwest and not on the battlefields of Europe. I can speak confidently and positively that the players of this country would much more, much rather, struggle and fight to win the Heisman award than the Croix de guerre.

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  Nile Kinnick

  Sports   Football   Country  

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• Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

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  Joe Namath

  Sports   Football   Team  

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• I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

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  Jack Tatum

  Motivational   Soccer   Football  

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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• This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.

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  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend   Support   Getting Older  

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• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

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  Vince Lombardi

  Sports   Respect   Football  

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• If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

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  Richard Baxter

  Years   Fire   Flames  

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• The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

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  Phyllis Diller

  Football   Motivational Sports   Inspiration  

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