Contact Sport Quotes

#1. True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

Jim Cooper

#2. Love is a contact sport you were born to win.

Suzette R. Hinton

#3. 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

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

Heyneke Meyer

#5. Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Phil McGraw

#6. Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Duffy Daugherty

#7. 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

#8. He'd taken a lot of females in his life, females who played at sex like a contact sport, but Tayla ... she rocked his underworld.

Larissa Ione

#9. I remember reading about an NFL receiver who studies yoga so that his limber limbs won't be surprised when they're slammed into strange positions as he plays his full-contact sport. Well, in case you haven't noticed, life is a full-contact sport, at least for the soul.

Martha N. Beck

#10. Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

Mark Zupan

#11. 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.

John Irving

#12. Change is a contact sport.

Romal J. Tune

#13. Life is a contact sport. Play or get off the field.

Jenn Brink

#14. Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Michael Nutter

#15. 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

#16. You just gotta realize relationships are a contact sport, and if you run too fast, nobody'll pass you the ball.

Tracey Alvarez

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

Steve Largent

#18. Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

John Thune

#19. 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.

Kamala Harris

#20. Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.

Thomas Szasz

#21. Politics is a contact sport.

Steve Chabot

#22. Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Irwin Shaw

#23. Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

Mark Shields

#24. I don't want to be alone, I whispered. The second those words left my mouth, Vivvie flew across the room. She hugged me like hugging was a contact sport.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#25. Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

Duffy Daugherty

#26. Quiet night. Silence at full capacity. Noiselessness is spilling over like a coffee cup full of jock cock. In a contact sport I've got to protect my genitals.

Jarod Kintz

#27. Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

Troy Vincent

#28. Reading ... is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.

Thomas C. Foster

#29. Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Barack Obama

#30. I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport.

Pete Visclosky

#31. 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

#32. They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it

Alice Cooper

#33. Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

Richie Sambora

#34. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

Cory Booker

#35. I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Sherry Turkle

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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