Fernando Torres Quotes

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

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

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

I've always been a physical player.

It's a physical game, and it's honestly a fight out there every play.

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

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.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

I thrive on physical confrontation. It's a competitive juice in me. I'm always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I'm 49, 59, 69 or 109, I'm always going to think that I can go out and compete.

I hated everybody I played against, and they hated me. That's the way hockey should be played.

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.

I like playing inside. I just love the physicalness of being in the box with the bigger guys. That's just something that's part of my game.

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

Suffering makes me hungry. Suffering allows me to put some hurt in my opponent. It's a good thing.

Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like.

We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.

I give no quarter, and I ask for none. Out there, I'm going to fight for my team and do the best I can.

Honestly, I want to wrestle everybody.

I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.