Sam Allardyce Quotes

When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

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.

Rugby takes its toll.

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.

If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

For my size, I think I played bigger than my size. I tried to play bigger, which is probably why I got as injured as I did.

The fundamentals have to be emphasized: tackling the correct way. Having the right equipment. Making sure that you don't have very violent practices or contact practices.

We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.

The bigger, stronger, faster and meaner my players are, the better I coach.

Every sport has dangers, and it's a risk we all take, but that's why people need to give us the credit we deserve.

When you play trying to avoid injuries, that's when you get hurt.

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.

If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

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

I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.

When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.

I don't care if it's a preseason game or not. You want to win.

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.