Tiki Barber Quotes

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

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

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.

I like to battle with defenders if I have to. I don't know where it comes from; I am not a nasty guy.

I just want to whup the man in front of me, play after play.

If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.

I just like to think of everyone as a happy family but in football that just doesn't exist.

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!

I went to school with a guy named Truxton. He and I played football together, and he knocked me out once because he's bigger and strong than I am.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

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

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

[Commenting on football:] To see some of our best-educated boys spending the afternoon knocking each other down, while thousands cheer them on, hardly gives a picture of a peace-loving nation.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

I don't have any concerns fighting a teammate. It's a sport. To me, it doesn't really mean anything.

I used to enjoy back-picking big guys all the time.

I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay.

There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.

Honestly, I want to wrestle everybody.

My game was all about strength and mauling opponents.

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.