Ray Lewis Quotes

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children, and other animals, are an imitation of fighting.

Our society makes profit out of violence

Some of them … are tripping one another up, while others are twisting each other and groveling together in the mud, wallowing like swine … Others standing upright, … are attacking each other with blows and kicks … one looks as if he were going to spew out his teeth, unlucky man, his mouth full of blood and sand …. Nobody can easily convince me that men who do these things are not out of their minds.

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

What I would like to emanate from the darkness of this tragedy is one spark of life. I mean, the realization that crime does not begin when you murder people. Crime begins with propaganda, even if such propaganda is for a good cause. The moment propaganda turns against another nation or against any human being, evil starts.

'Tis no festival unless there be some fightings.

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.

The fans want to see more. They're there to see fights, they want to see more, they want to see people get put unconscious, whatever. But you can't get put in those spots.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

When things are right and things are focused, it's a game to me, and I'm there just stalking and punching and grabbing and tearing people up.

There's a difference between action and violence. Violence isn't fun.

I get excited for big games in December.

I don't put nothing past no man who ever played the game of football.

If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

There's nothing better than a fight, especially when you're watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he's a big Jessie!

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.