Mary McCormack Quotes

I've always been a physical player.

You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

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

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

It's no secret that I enjoyed the physical side when I was a player. I was a bumps-and-bruises man.

Rugby and wrestling are sports for real athletes.

I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It's something I enjoy. I'm a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

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

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.

Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

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

I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.