Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Football is a reaction sport.
It's the most violent sport there is.
I always say football is very unnatural sport. Nobody loves to just ram into people.
This is a fighter sport.
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.
I mean, football is a violent sport.
It's a violent sport. It's meant to be that way.
I love this sport. I love the fights and I love most of the guys in it.
I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.
We play a violent sport.
It's not a game. You can't play boxing.
I do what I do for a job. This is fighting. This is a bloody sport. It's not a nice sport.
That's how the NFL is. It's a dangerous, violent game, and there's only so many opportunities, and only the best of the best play it.
Football is an awesome sport, but it's also a violent sport, and that's why all of us love it. We know what we checked in for, and at seven years of age, that's what I wanted to do with my life, and I didn't care that I got hurt.
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.
Football is a violent sport, but you know what you sign up for when you put those shoulder pads on. I agree with certain aspects of it. I disagree with certain aspects of it. I've had concussions and I'm still here. I still love the sport. I think I'm still very healthy.
Football is a violent, violent sport, and you have to practice that way in order to get at elite levels on Saturday, in my opinion.
Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.
I like punching people and I like being punched, to be honest with you. What other thing could I do, beating people up and getting beat up, and get paid for it?
March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
