Nick Nurse Quotes

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

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

I've always been a physical player.

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.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

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.

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

Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.

Sometimes you'll have 30, 40 touches in the game, and you'll feel better than if you had 22. It depends on where you get hit and how you get hit.

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

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

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

I always say football is very unnatural sport. Nobody loves to just ram into people.

Thompson is a typical American: wide feet, good jab; he'll try to have a fight.

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.

I like a guy with a little edge. I mean, I played with Warren Sapp.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

The way I approach things is that I'm a physical player.

This sport is brutal. This sport is a hard sport.

I'm used to throwing my body around. I'm used to taking a punch.

I love offensive physicality.