Athletic Aggression Quotes

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.

I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.

Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them

I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest of situations.

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

I'm accustomed to playing basketball really rough. When I came into the league, I was used to fighting on the court. That's how I grew up playing basketball.

It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me running, having a big, violent hit, it's going to look bad, but that's the natural ability I've been given. Why would I let it run to the wayside and not use it?

My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.