Gridiron Quotes:

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

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Football, Motivational Sports, Inspiration, Homecoming, Sports Football

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.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Success, Simple, Decision, Good Decision, Gridiron

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

- Joe Namath

topic: Sports, Football, Team, Inspirational Football, Motivational Football

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Football, Respect, Perseverance, Soccer Player, Inspirational Football Coach

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

- Jack Tatum

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

topic: Soccer, Believe, Borders, Inspirational Football, Motivational Football

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.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Dream, Blessed, Eden, Playing Fields, Stock Exchange

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.

- Nile Kinnick

topic: Sports, Football, Country, Gridiron

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 ?

- Richard Baxter

topic: Years, Fire, Flames, Gridiron, Years Together

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.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Weekend, Support, Getting Older, Gridiron