Joe Rogan Quotes

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

There's shouting, there's blood, there's boogers, there's a whole thing. I mean, there's spitting, there's fighting, there's ripped jerseys. There's someone grabbing someone's throat. I mean, it's why you have football.

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

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

How many people can say that they've punched a fan?

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.

If you hit me, I'm gonna try to shoot the ball and get two free throws.

It's brutal out on the football field.

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

The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it's not Disney. It's the MMA. It's a violent, brutal human war, with rules. The same guy who says, 'I'm going to rob everybody,' is the same guy who would be successful in the NFL.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

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.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

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.

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

I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

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

Kicking's kicking. Pressure's pressure. You beat other guys just to get drafted.

I've never had a fight in the street.