--- title: "7 Gridiron Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Gridiron quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Gridiron sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98e/richard-baxter-2985_endure_if-it-will-be-an-intolerable-thing-to-su_1237127.png" --- > [If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/if-it-will-be-an-intolerable-thing-to-suffer-the-heat-of-fire-for-a/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98e/richard-baxter-2985_endure_if-it-will-be-an-intolerable-thing-to-su_1237127.png) > [I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-tatum/i-like-to-believe-that-my-best-hits-border-on-felonious-assault/) [Jack Tatum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-tatum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0a/jack-tatum-30304_american-football_i-like-to-believe-that-my-best-hits-bord_2000368.jpg) > [The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-h-lapham/the-playing-field-is-more-sacred-than-the-stock-exchange-more-blessed/) [Lewis H. Lapham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-h-lapham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/966/lewis-h-lapham-7190_american-dream_the-playing-field-is-more-sacred-than-th_2693959.jpg) > [The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-kasparov/the-stock-market-and-the-gridiron-and-the-battlefield-aren-t-as-tidy/) [Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garry-kasparov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bda/garry-kasparov-910_battlefields_the-stock-market-and-the-gridiron-and-th_2702973.jpg) > [Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nile-kinnick/finally-if-you-will-permit-me-i-d-like-to-make-a-comment-which-in-my/) [Nile Kinnick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nile-kinnick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/nile-kinnick-101230_awards_finally-if-you-will-permit-me-i-d-like-t_3001132.jpg) > [Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-deford/does-each-of-us-need-to-suffer-agony-to-understand-how-brutal-our/) [Frank Deford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-deford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cab/frank-deford-3856_alone_does-each-of-us-need-to-suffer-agony-to_3014082.png) > [This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-fallon/this-weekend-president-obama-attended-the-annual-gridiron-club-dinner/) [Jimmy Fallon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-fallon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f3/jimmy-fallon-656_annuals_this-weekend-president-obama-attended-th_3081659.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gridiron/#itemlist", "name": "Gridiron Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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? 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