A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.
At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. When you've got a big heavyweight who has knockout power, anything's possible.
It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.
We all know, going into this business and stepping into the ring, there's a possibility of injury. But you're never expecting it to happen, and when it does, it's just the worst thing ever.
Advocating war is easier when you and your family are not endangered by it.
I know other people who have started their kids in tackle football for, like, four- and five-year-olds. So I think it's up to each individual's parents, but for me personally, no I wouldn't. But would I be OK with him playing in seventh or eighth grade? Yes.
If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.
Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.
Every man who gets in that ring has the ability to hurt you.
My time in war zones have been fleeting and infrequent. I've been to Iraq. I've been to Afghanistan. I've been to other places where I've collected hazardous duty pay.
One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
I could always fight overseas, but who wants to do that? They'd really have to make it worth my while.
I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.
Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.
If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.
If you play NFL football, you play football, these are the consequences. There's choices and consequences in life for everything. There's consequences if you play football.
Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
I was supposed to fight a guy back in the day. He didn't shower, specifically to throw off his opponents. Thank God I got injured, and I couldn't fight the fight. I was so worried about it. I was like, 'Oh my God - I heard about this guy.' It was the worst ever.
You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.
I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.
I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.
As an announcer, I have nothing but respect for the fighters, and I want to make sure I do my job to let the people know who these courageous warriors are, because they are putting their lives on the line for our entertainment, and there's something to be said about that.
