Harmon Killebrew Quotes

When I see some of the pitches which my father played on, I think that it must have been a different game.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

I'm always a player who has taken fairly rough treatment, to be honest. I think my time in Scotland typified that because I think there was one game where I set a record for being fouled ten or 11 times in a game.

I don't have any problem with tackles or duels, but I react when I notice that someone is only trying to kick me out of the game. But I never have the intention to hurt anyone. Everything is forgotten again a minute later.

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

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.

I mean, football is a violent sport.

I'm looking forward to 'Cataclysm.' I have to be honest: I think one of the things that I worry the most about in the game is the homogenization of the game.

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

Huth is the sort of centre-half who will let you know he is there, so to speak, with a challenge or two early in the game.

During the game, there has to be a moment where you have to set the tone. You have to let them know that you're a physical player.

Every season, I've adjusted. My first couple of years it was still banging in the post and doing all the nitty gritty stuff. Over the years, it's changed to bigs being able to shoot and run the floor and be more agile, which is good for me because I'm a very agile guy.

I was thinking it would be nice if I woke up and could play like Roberto Clemente.

Baseball didn't really fit my personality as well as football does.

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.

Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I'm not sure. But I think that's the direction we're going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game.

Guys come to play against Brazil and want to intimidate, putting their hands on us, talking, wanting to hit us.

We see that as 'Fortnite' evolves, it's evolving beyond being a game.

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

Football is a contact sport and sometimes is difficult to measure that.

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

I've added to my abilities since moving to Bournemouth. You are always having to re-learn how to be a centre-forward as the game is moving forward.

It doesn't change the way we play, I'll tell you that much. If we hit a guy and get fined, we get fined.