Brian Urlacher Quotes

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

It's brutal out on the football field.

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

I've been slashed, speared, elbowed, board-checked, butt-ended, and hit on the head as much as anyone. I just like to keep the ledger balanced.

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.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

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

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

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

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

I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of the ball,' and 'The magic of the stadium.' It ain't that magical. When you get hit coming across the middle at 25 miles per hour, the magic's over.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

If you yell at your box, I'm not really sure it's something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself.

There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

No one has ever bitten me, and I've never bitten anyone on the court.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.

I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

It's a different era. I understand what Charles Barkley was saying but you just can't take guys out. There's too much scrutiny. There's too many replays and reviews, and cameras everywhere.

I never want to hurt a player but being physical is different. Body to body.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.