Pat McAfee Quotes

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

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

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.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

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

Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I'm conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact.

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

If you don't like to be hit, you're in the wrong sport.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.

Football is brutality. Football is career-ending, life-threatening injury just by stepping on the field.

It's brutal out on the football field.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.

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.

Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.

I am physical, not aggressive. Well, aggressive with the ball, but I don't kick people.

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

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

It's part of the sport, getting hit.