Bryce Harper Quotes

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

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

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

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

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

You're only out there for 90 minutes, and you have to give it everything you've got. It's a game of football, at the end of the day.

This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.

It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.

If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.

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

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

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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

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

We play a violent sport.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.