Vince Lombardi Quotes

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

I'm built for wrestling. I have a high pain tolerance. My nose has been broken a couple times. Black eyes.

I just loved the kind of people who play football. Definitely takes courage to play this game.

I don't know if I'm ever going to quit playing football. I'm just kidding.

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.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.

College lacrosse can be pretty brutal at times, so that definitely helped me with the toughness. It's a fast-paced game, so that helped me kind of translate over to the game speed of playing in the NFL. I think just the one-on-one aspect of trying to beat the guy in front of you definitely helped me as being a receiver.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

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

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

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.