Kelita Zupancic Quotes

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.

It's brutal out on the football field.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It's something I enjoy. I'm a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.

I love offensive physicality.

Guys are going to be physical, especially with me being the young guy. That tends to happen a lot. It's just guys trying to be stronger and bigger than me, so they're just trying to be more physical.

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

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

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

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

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

I think you have to be physical no matter who you're playing against, so that's just something that I have to do.

I've done it before, and I might do it whenever we need to as a big guy... I'll take it. A hard foul is part of the game, which is good.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

It's in my blood to be an athlete, to be a hockey player.