Joe Flacco Quotes

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

It's a physical game, and it's honestly a fight out there every play.

You would not want me on your football team.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

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

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

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

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

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.

Tebow would never hit the field.

I always had a concept of watching great players, great goalkeepers.

I can say for a fact, football is definitely my sport, and I can't wait to show the world what I can do.

I like the challenge, week in, week out, of trying to play good, consistent footy.

All I can do is play football, put it on film.

Whenever I'm on the pitch, I feel confident.

Rugby and wrestling are sports for real athletes.

I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.

I feel like I am the best defensive player in the league.

I just wanted to prove that I can play wide receiver at a high level.

Though I have no real understanding of the mechanics of football, and can only nod along helplessly at complex post-match analyses, I do enjoy watching people who are enormously good at something doing that thing very well.

I'm a football player, you know? My film talks for me.

This is football, man. We all sign up to get hit.