Freddie Ljungberg Quotes

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

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

We're gonna play fast, we're gonna play physical, we're gonna play furious, and we're gonna play contact football.

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

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

We play a violent sport.

Friends would not say I'm a laid-back person by any means.

Football is an awesome sport, but it's also a violent sport, and that's why all of us love it. We know what we checked in for, and at seven years of age, that's what I wanted to do with my life, and I didn't care that I got hurt.

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.

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.

Irish national teams are usually very physical.

I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.

I actually was a competitive gymnast for the first part of my life. From age 6 to 12, I dedicated pretty much everything to that, until I got injured really badly.

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

I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.

If you don't like to be hit, you're in the wrong sport.

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

In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I'd get used to that side of the English game. I actually enjoy the physical side of it now.

I was a buzzsaw out there, high impact, high energy, I was quick.

It's a violent sport. It's meant to be that way.

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

I'm just so intense when I fight, and I think a lot of fans love that.

It's part of the sport, getting hit.