Terry Crews Quotes

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

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

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

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.

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

Football: War with cleats and pads.

It's brutal out on the football field.

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

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

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.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

[Commenting on football:] To see some of our best-educated boys spending the afternoon knocking each other down, while thousands cheer them on, hardly gives a picture of a peace-loving nation.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

I was playing tackle football in the street at five years old. Always being physical. Always being tough, just like a man's man. It was just always about being tough.

Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

We always said it's not suit-and-tie on the football field.

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.

It would be nice to finish Khabib via liver shots, wouldn't it? I just want to see him wincing in pain on the ground where he belongs.

I love offensive physicality.

The Premier League has a lot of intensity, a lot of physicality.

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