Brian Bosworth Quotes

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

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

I've always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you've got to give up the ball because of one inch.

When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

It's brutal out on the football field.

I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Just like when I was in the NFL, you've got to find those smaller dudes - and when you get your hands on them, it's bad news - all day.

Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.

I want to be known as a guy who breaks tackles; that's the whole objective of the game.

Some of my best tackles were the most dangerous!

My nickname, T-Wood, came from football because I was so small, but I used knock people's helmets off. All I wanted to do was hit. I didn't care about interceptions or touchdowns.

It's a nice release when you make a perfect tackle, a good hit.

I don't want to be making tackles.

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

I just want to whup the man in front of me, play after play.

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.

I don't think anybody running the ball, besides some running backs, like to get hit.

If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.

You can't just think up a move in your head and go, 'Okay, I'll just pick somebody up, and I'm just going to throw them backwards into the post.' You have to think, 'Would you want someone to do the same thing to you?'

I love the physicality of an offensive lineman.

I don't put nothing past no man who ever played the game of football.