Football Toughness Quotes

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt.

I'm a massive fan of Didier Drogba, I love the way he plays. He's not as stacked as me but he's strong and he's still scoring goals. I'm a fan of Diego Costa as well. I think he crosses the line at times but I like the fact he doesn't allow himself to be bullied.

Willie Roaf kicked my butt a couple of times. Larry Allen was a guard, but one time in San Francisco he took me with one hand and threw me out of the play. Walter Jones was pretty tough, too.

Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

International football's not always about playing the top three in the world - it's about going to some of the tougher places around Europe and playing real tough games.

I mean, I don't really take a lot of blows. Since I've been 20 years old in the NFL, that's never going to change in my playing style.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

I learned not to fight against the many bad things in football and try to always battle through injuries. That's one of the most important things I learned.

Without a doubt, German football, where I've played for nearly five years, is very similar - maybe just a little less tough than English football.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.

Quarterback and cornerback are two of the hardest positions to play on the field, so yeah, you're going to get beat, you're going to throw interceptions, you're going to get sacked, you're going to miss throws. Stuff like that is going to happen. That's something you've been prepping for your whole life playing the position.