Alberto Del Rio Quotes

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.

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

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

In most cases, in this sport, for guys to advance in this sport, you gotta fight. If you don't fight, you're not making it, because it's too competitive.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

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.

I love the sport. I love fighting. Fighting is my life.

Football is like that - sometimes you have good times, sometimes you have bad times.

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

I like the good part of the sport, the sport side of the fighting.

There is no room for sentiment in a boxing ring.

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.

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

A game is not won until it is lost.

There's many ups and downs in the fight game.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.