Emmitt Smith Quotes

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

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

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

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.

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

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

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

We always said it's not suit-and-tie on the football field.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

It's brutal out on the football field.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

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

We play a violent sport.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

[Commenting on football:] To see some of our best-educated boys spending the afternoon knocking each other down, while thousands cheer them on, hardly gives a picture of a peace-loving nation.

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.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

Look at rugby, the national sport, you have guys weighing 130kg, 140kg, who can run like sprinters full clip into each other causing brain damage constantly on that field.

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

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

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

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.

I was playing tackle football in the street at five years old. Always being physical. Always being tough, just like a man's man. It was just always about being tough.