Charles Woodson Quotes

You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

I never came out of a game unless I was truly hurt.

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

I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.

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

I remember my first Arsenal training session and Sol Campbell going straight through me. I had a bit of a bruise, but I got straight back up and carried on. I didn't want to show them that it hurt.

I've been injured where you can't play. But if I'm able to get up and move around, I'm not coming off the field.

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

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

People think of rugby players as being tough but it's another thing to stand in front of someone and get kicked, punched, taken down. In rugby you have two contact sessions a week and you play a game on the weekend.

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

You would not want me on your football team.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

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

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of the ball,' and 'The magic of the stadium.' It ain't that magical. When you get hit coming across the middle at 25 miles per hour, the magic's over.

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.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.

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

I'm quite used to playing with few injuries, whether it is back, fingers, elbow, or something else. You have to be tough and get on with the game.

I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.

I push myself to the limit to do what I most like doing, which is playing football.