Quotes About Contact sport

I was a big Doug Plank fan," said Tim Ehlebracht, a Blitz wide receiver. "Then my first day of practice I come over the middle, he hits me, and I end up in the hospital after landing on my head.

Football is a contact sport and sometimes is difficult to measure that.

This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

A crash is part of the game. We've tried to make the cars a lot safer. There's no getting around it though. We're a contact sport.

Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives you discipline and self-control.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.

That's what stock-car racing is. You hit someone, or you get hit. That's something I had to learn. It's a key factor in why I'm so aggressive. I don't want to have to hit you. But if you're going to hit me, I'm going to hit you.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

In its current form, modern running is a high risk contact sport.

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

I think when you play a contact sport there's always inherent risk and inherent risk to injury. At what point do you tolerate it, and at what point is it enough?

It's a contact sport. At some point, I'll get hit and that's part of it. I'm not worried about it.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport.

I played youth football through the fifth grade and really enjoyed it, but Tampa Prep doesn't have a football program. Wrestling was the only hard physical contact sport there, so I tried it.

I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn't possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.