Quotes About Contact Sports

#1. 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

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

Duffy Daugherty

#3. 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

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

Richie Sambora

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Heyneke Meyer

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

Phil McGraw

#10. 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

#11. The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

Paul Fussell

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Michael Nutter

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

Steve Largent

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

Alice Cooper

#19. 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

#20. Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Barack Obama

#21. 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

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

Troy Vincent

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

Duffy Daugherty

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

Mark Shields

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

Irwin Shaw

#26. Politics is a contact sport.

Steve Chabot

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

Thomas Szasz

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Sherry Turkle

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

Mark Zupan

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

Cory Booker

#33. 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