Bo Jackson Quotes

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

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

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

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.

We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

It's brutal out on the football field.

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.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

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.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.

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.

If you worry about hurting your opponent you are probably in the wrong game, because it can happen. I wouldn't wish ill on anyone. I wanted to knock him out, not hurt him badly.

I'm looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies.

Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.

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

I love offensive physicality.

Football: War with cleats and pads.