Patrick Beverley Quotes

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

I thrive on physical confrontation. It's a competitive juice in me. I'm always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I'm 49, 59, 69 or 109, I'm always going to think that I can go out and compete.

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.

Just understand that I'm trying to get to the quarterback by any means necessary. And if I have to throw somebody out of the way to do it, it is what it is.

Guys come to play against Brazil and want to intimidate, putting their hands on us, talking, wanting to hit us.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

I was always fighting with everyone when I was a kid. I was playing with people two or three years older than me, and I had to survive. So I love the physical game, the contact. And I don't know why, but I think football is like this. It is not just touching the ball and stringing together 50 pretty passes consecutively.

I hated everybody I played against, and they hated me. That's the way hockey should be played.

Everyone wants to fight me. It's a long list.

I'll fight anybody. I've been saying that for I don't know how long.

I don't go out there to hurt people, I don't even know how to attempt to hurt somebody. I play hard, bring the edge. I'm an instigator. That gets me going.

We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.

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.

Aggression is something that is a part of me, and I'm never going to take that out of my game.

I'm going to smash Wayne McCullough to bits. And when you see him smashed to bits, you're going to see the same thing I'd have done to Barry McGuigan, his friend and idol.

I think you have to be physical no matter who you're playing against, so that's just something that I have to do.

I learned, for me to play at my best, I need to play with an edge.

I'd love to go to Russia and silence that crowd and give the Russian fans something to cry about.

I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.