Sports Aggression Quotes

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

I don't know if I like getting hit, but I try to draw contact.

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

There's little place for sympathy in football.

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

I think that football has always had a passionate, aggressive side, with players giving their all. People have to get used to this.

When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.

When we were playing, it was rough and tough. Even superstars like me fouled out a lot.

I think you need to be aggressive. That's offensive football.

People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like.

Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.

People like Mo Ali, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Joe Root, they are looking to take attack to the opposition and that's when they play their best.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes

I like to hit hard, I like to be hit hard, and I like really competitive matches. That's my take on pro wrestling.

There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.

The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

Scoring two goals to win a game will hurt an opponent more than a punch in the face.