Israel Folau Quotes

I've never been scared of contact. Now I get to bring it, that's what I love to do, so I'm going to bring it.

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso was always bemused by our enthusiasm for tackling, because he saw it as the last resort.

When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

When someone like Lukaku gets you in the position where he's holding you off it is key to try and nick it in front of him.

Look at rugby, the national sport, you have guys weighing 130kg, 140kg, who can run like sprinters full clip into each other causing brain damage constantly on that field.

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

As a player, I loved being tackled, whether it was in training or in a game. I took a full-blooded challenge as an invitation to do exactly the same thing to an opponent. I would wait for my opportunity and nine times out of 10, I would get him back.

I don't know how many times you see 10s tackle each other.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

I mean, I don't really take a lot of blows. Since I've been 20 years old in the NFL, that's never going to change in my playing style.

Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.

Some of my best tackles were the most dangerous!

My nickname, T-Wood, came from football because I was so small, but I used knock people's helmets off. All I wanted to do was hit. I didn't care about interceptions or touchdowns.

There's shouting, there's blood, there's boogers, there's a whole thing. I mean, there's spitting, there's fighting, there's ripped jerseys. There's someone grabbing someone's throat. I mean, it's why you have football.

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.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

I love offensive physicality.

The only time I've ever been knocked out in my entire life was in a rugby game when I was about 13. I used to play on the wing. The opposing winger has the ball in his hand and he's running full speed at me. I go down to tackle him and he jumps up and his knee hits my temple.

It's a nice release when you make a perfect tackle, a good hit.

You've got to be humble; you've got to be nice to everyone. But when you're in the ring, that's the time to let your fists do the talking, and that's the time for action.

That irritates me the most - missing tackles.