George Stigler Quotes

I was always fighting with everyone when I was a kid. I was playing with people two or three years older than me, and I had to survive. So I love the physical game, the contact. And I don't know why, but I think football is like this. It is not just touching the ball and stringing together 50 pretty passes consecutively.

I like taking on the tough guys.

I don't pick opponents. I don't care about who I'm going to fight.

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

I want the big fights.

I give no quarter, and I ask for none. Out there, I'm going to fight for my team and do the best I can.

I think the best thing to say is that I was born to fight.

Honestly, I want to wrestle everybody.

Everyone is out there to beat me, so I go up against every single player to have a battle.

I'm a competitor; I'm in here talking - come at me. If you score on me, I'm gonna tap you on your butt. You got the best of me - but you got to do it every time.

When you're a true fighter, you fight everyone.

On that court, ain't no such thing as friends and smiling and everything like that.

I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.

You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

I kinda see everyone as competition.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

I'm a fighter. I'm very competitive.

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be the best, but I would just fight anyone, any time. I don't care.