Le'Veon Bell Quotes

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

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.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

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.

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.

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

Hockey was my favorite sport my whole life until I played football.

We play in a physical sport.

Football has been my life.

Baseball didn't really fit my personality as well as football does.

International rugby is an unforgiving arena.

I love what I do, which is to play football.

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.

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

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.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.