Erin Morgenstern Quotes

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

The battle is long, but that's football, sport.

I love to compete. I love to be on the field.

I like competing. Just going out there and battling. Having a game plan and going out there and executing it.

We will fight against good teams.

I am fully prepared to fight with any opponent in my category from any team.

Drake took me to the limit in our ping-pong challenge.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

Bear patiently with a rival.

When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.

As long as there are games to play it is not over.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

I love football, football is my life.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

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

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.