Wilfried Zaha Quotes

It's great playing a sport where you don't get hit in the head.

Everything in my life happens really fast.

I never want to hurt a player but being physical is different. Body to body.

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I'm conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact.

There is no question that in the '50s and '60s, black players got thrown at more. That's not a negative comment. It may come out that way, but that's the way it was. Hitting another player was part of the game; hitting a player in the head is not.

We want to go 100 miles per hour and cause confusion for the defense. It can be a lot of fun.

It's the most violent sport there is.

On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.

I get paid to get hit in the head.

In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.

Look at rugby, the national sport, you have guys weighing 130kg, 140kg, who can run like sprinters full clip into each other causing brain damage constantly on that field.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.

I wish that we all would have slowed down and savored the moment, loved what was happening and then appreciate it. It was going by so fast. Whatever the record told us to do, we'd do. We were just constantly touring, and then MTV happened and that kicked things up a notch for everybody.

I bowled in tandem with Brett Lee, who produced some fast, fiery spells. When you've got someone bowling up above 90mph, it has a fear factor that not many people really enjoy.

Things happen fast. That's this league. You can't slow down, because it's going.

I'd hate to see the game I love go away because it is considered too dangerous and parents are scared to allow their kids to play.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

It's part of the sport, getting hit.

As long as we're wearing helmets and shoulder pads - there's collisions between these big, physical, fast guys - head injuries are going to be a part of it.

As long as we're having contact and as long as there are collisions, there's going to be head injuries. What the long-term consequences are of that, we're beginning to learn, and that definitely will have an impact on the game as we know it.

I mean, football is a violent sport.