We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.
You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.
I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
I feel like I'm one of the most physical players in the league - I love contact. I love attacking. I love going to the free throw line.
This is football, man. We all sign up to get hit.
I started competing on boxing, so I have my hands. I'm an O.K. wrestler, so why not?
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'
It doesn't take science to know that when you have head-to-head collisions, there's going to be some effect.
None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.
As a punt returner in the NFL, I know all about teamwork, high-speeds, and collisions on Sundays.
A crash is part of the game. We've tried to make the cars a lot safer. There's no getting around it though. We're a contact sport.
I get paid to get hit in the head.
I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.
I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.
We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.
I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.
I don't want to be making tackles.
When I see wrestlers fight, they train a lot of boxing because they don't want to end up on bottom.
One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.
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.
In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.
I've just got to be a little bit cautious with my technique and all that sort of stuff, going into tackles. But I'm not going to change the way that I go into it. I'm going to be aggressive.
