Christian McCaffrey Quotes

This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

We play a violent sport.

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.

There's nothing like being on the field, taking on blocks, chasing after fast guys.

It's a physical game, and it's honestly a fight out there every play.

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

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

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

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

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

There is no drama like the drama on the athletic field.

Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It's not the safest sport that we play; it's a beautifully violent game, and that's what, in part, I love about it.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

It's the NFL, so anytime you get to go out and get to play against another team, there's going to be some physicality.

It's a nice release when you make a perfect tackle, a good hit.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.