Jonathan Raymond Quotes

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

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

We murdered them 0-0.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

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

Ah, colonel, all’s fair in love and war, you know.

I'm here to compete and to keep beating people up.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

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.

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

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.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

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

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

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

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.