Willie Mays Quotes

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

'Tis no festival unless there be some fightings.

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Hell, this isn’t a pinochle party we’re having. It’s war.

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

With all my fights, my style is to pretty much put a beating on. I don't exactly like hurting people, but unfortunately that's what we need to do in this game to win.

Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.

I wrestled almost everybody.

When things are right and things are focused, it's a game to me, and I'm there just stalking and punching and grabbing and tearing people up.

Football: War with cleats and pads.

It's a lot of fun to fight.

There were definitely some days at training camp that I got in fistfights.

I like big fights.

I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.

If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.