Burt Bacharach Quotes

I was really just too small for football.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

Boxing never hurt me at all.

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

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

Ronnie Lott - he got a really good shot on me once and I learned that unless I wanted to shorten my career, I needed to steer clear of his path.

Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

Getting hit is not cool.

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.

I don't like getting hit.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

I don't know if I'm ever going to quit playing football. I'm just kidding.

I was the kid that wanted to be anonymous in that I'd put a football helmet on and be a member of a team and go out there and maim people. It was a very hard process. It truly was.

I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

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 thought boxing was stupid.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

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

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.