Jonah Lomu Quotes

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

Football rewards the guys that are in great condition.

I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.

I live to be in these matches.

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

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

If I am on the pitch there is a lot of energy in my body.

I love competing, and I love throwing the football.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

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

I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.

Athletics is in my blood.

You would not want me on your football team.

I play sports.

We play a violent sport.

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

I love playing sport.

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.