Tough Players Quotes

When you look at what we want our individual player to represent from that makeup, if you will, we're looking for mentally and physically tough players who are smart and want to compete. And when you say smart, you're talking about situational awareness. Guys that are instinctual. That are smart football players.

Without a doubt, one of the toughest football players to ever play the game is Tom Brady.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

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.

Defenders are always tough, whether you play in Spain or England.

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

I managed Zlatan when he was young and sometimes also difficult! But, okay, that is normal.

Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them

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

It is important to have tough and strong players to win back the ball and give consistency to a team.

There are lots of mentally very tough players that I have played against and with.