Marcus Mariota 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.

Sometimes you'll have 30, 40 touches in the game, and you'll feel better than if you had 22. It depends on where you get hit and how you get hit.

This is a virile sport in which physical contact is allowed.

This sport is brutal. This sport is a hard sport.

It's a violent sport. It's meant to be that way.

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

I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.

Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It's not the safest sport that we play; it's a beautifully violent game, and that's what, in part, I love about it.

I always say football is very unnatural sport. Nobody loves to just ram into people.

I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.

People think of rugby players as being tough but it's another thing to stand in front of someone and get kicked, punched, taken down. In rugby you have two contact sessions a week and you play a game on the weekend.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

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

We play a violent sport.

I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

A man is not scared of playing, of having any contact, and you won't shut him down if you kick him - he will just ask for the ball all the time.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

I was playing tackle football in the street at five years old. Always being physical. Always being tough, just like a man's man. It was just always about being tough.

I like taking on the tough guys.

When you get the first knock, it kind of wakes you up: you know, they are men, and it is not like Under-18s when you can take loads of knocks and know you will be fine, that you won't feel anything after the game. You definitely get harder knocks, but it helps. You just get up and get on with the game, and then you can give it to them back.