Quotes About Gridiron

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.

Tom Brokaw

#4. 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

#5. Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.

Mike Michalowicz

#6. I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that.

Maryrose Wood

#7. Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you.

Jack Kerouac

#8. Sure," I said. "But first I have a question for you. 'Do ut des'.

Jason Luke

#9. Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#10. A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

Fethullah Gulen

#11. He took another quick swallow of the coffee. Tasted awful to him, though it was good coffee, he'd brewed it himself. A beer was what he wanted. Not to have a beer right now was like not breathing. But it was just too great a risk.

Anne Rice

#12. I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.

E. Lockhart

#13. We need to support the governments of the world to create the world we want and I also think we need to empower the UN so that the secretariat, the people who work day in and day out, know that the people are behind them.

Jeremy Gilley