Jack Grealish Quotes

You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.

Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.

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

When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

Whoever says basketball ain't a contact sport definitely lied.

I mean, I don't really take a lot of blows. Since I've been 20 years old in the NFL, that's never going to change in my playing style.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

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

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

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

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

I like playing inside. I just love the physicalness of being in the box with the bigger guys. That's just something that's part of my game.

Nobody likes it when people dribble past them, me included, but I can't tackle.

There is nowhere to hide as an international back-row forward.

English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.

This is a virile sport in which physical contact is allowed.

I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.

It's no secret that I enjoyed the physical side when I was a player. I was a bumps-and-bruises man.

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.

Me, personally, I'm going to be out there running full speed and chasing down running backs and chasing down quarterbacks. That's what I do best.