Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. — Heyneke Meyer
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that. — Joe Theismann
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out. — Nate Diaz
Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets. — Tom Udall
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.' — Billy Corgan
Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out. — Valentino Rossi
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks. — Roger Bannister
The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field — Wendy Mass
Short Contact Sports Quotes
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you. — Mike Tyson
Sports is human life in microcosm. — Howard Cosell
My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day. — Paul Walker
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
I'm a huge sports fan. — Marc Anthony
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. — Paul Rodriguez
Contact Sports Image Quotes
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Playing Sports Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
When you see a good move, look for a better one. — Emanuel Lasker
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable. — April Ross
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. — Oscar Wilde
Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what you’re going to get. But if you handle these knocks with love and understanding, they don’t mean much. They just dissipate. — Sydney Banks
It's not like I'm going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There's going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody's going to be converted. — Dana White
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. — Irwin Shaw
Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur. — Sydney Banks
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it! — Irwin Shaw
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play. — Thomas Szasz
The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game. — Karch Kiraly
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. — Vince Lombardi
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. — Erma Bombeck
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. — Duffy Daugherty
People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional. — Mike Tyson
The job now is to institutionalize all of that [Vatican finances], and I wouldn't bet against Cardinal [George] Pell, who hasn't shied away from contact sports since his days as an Australian-rules football star. — George Weigel
Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport — Duffy Daugherty
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going. — Richie Sambora
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. — George Plimpton
Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand. — Tom Wujec
Technique is everything and we play a contact sport. — Troy Vincent
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. — Barack Obama
They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it — Alice Cooper
In every sport there comes a moment when a spell of bitter weeping seems like a fair recess from whatever tough work is going on. It's only the steeliest among us who can fight the urge to turn negative-who instead will make contact and redouble her efforts. Call it grace under pressure. Call it grit....call it excellence. — Susan Casey
Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment. — Tom Brady
That's pretty hot," he said. "Punching me in the eye?" "Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports." "I'm sure you are. — Richelle Mead
If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact. — Ron Fairly
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. — Cory Booker
I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of my best teachers. He was the pro. He approached it like a baseball player. Acting is a contact sport to him. — Tim Matheson
One comment by a female lobbyist really shocked me. She said, "Washington is a contact sport." I asked, "What do you mean by that?" And she just said, "Well, it's all men - and they're very contact-y. They touch a lot." Women say that's just part of the game. — Jessica Chastain
If no-eye contact sex were a sport, I'm not saying I'd make it to the Olympics, but I like my chances. — Dov Davidoff
The waves get high, they get low. It's been a wonderful journey, every bit of it, and that's from every praise to every criticism... To be able to able to hang around athletics for a lifetime and to meet all these wonderful people I've come in contact with, to have been around as many big events as I have, I can't imagine a day when I did not have something to make me happy about sports. — Brent Musburger
Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport. — Mark Zupan
You've got to be dedicated to train as hard as you can, for as long as you can, because in any sport, and especially this environment, there's a lot of contact. It's all about conditioning and good preparation to keep your body in the best condition possible to play games. — Filo Tiatia
I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision. — Brad Tavares
I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport. — Sherry Turkle
Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two. — Mark Shields
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. — Paul Fussell
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