Brian France Quotes

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

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.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

It's a physical game, and it's honestly a fight out there every play.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

We play a violent sport.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

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.

I love playing football, and I'm pretty aggressive on the field. I'm a different person on the football field.

Going into a game, I know that I'm going to run a lot. I know I'm going to have a lot of volume, and I know that I'm going to get hit a lot, which is great. Sometimes we try to deliver some blows, too, try to break as many tackles as possible. We know it's going to hurt the next day. That's why we love the game.

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.

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.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

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

When you fight -- fight to win

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.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

There is no drama like the drama on the athletic field.

Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It's not the safest sport that we play; it's a beautifully violent game, and that's what, in part, I love about it.

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.

There's nothing like being on the field, taking on blocks, chasing after fast guys.

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