George Orwell Quotes

Sports is like a war without the killing.

I just want to whup the man in front of me, play after play.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

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

In violence, we forget who we are.

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

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

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

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it's not Disney. It's the MMA. It's a violent, brutal human war, with rules. The same guy who says, 'I'm going to rob everybody,' is the same guy who would be successful in the NFL.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.