Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.
Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It's not the safest sport that we play; it's a beautifully violent game, and that's what, in part, I love about it.
Any sport that turns a squash into a lethal projectile is safest watched from the comfort of your couch.
I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs