Quotes & Sayings About Contact Sports

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play. — Thomas Szasz

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two. — Mark Shields

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

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

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport. — Michael Nutter

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board. — Phil McGraw

They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it — Alice Cooper

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

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. — Irwin Shaw

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

Hockey and cooking are similar in so many ways, especially if you are a player-coach, the guy in charge on the ice, a role I would closely relate to that of a chef in the kitchen - they are both contact sports.

You've gotta keep your head up, keep moving and communicate well. Even though you might be the leader in the kitchen or on the ice, you need to understand that that you're part of a working machine and that machine stops working if one of the pieces isn't working in unison with the others. I learned from a very young age the importance of being part of this team dynamic and how hard work can take you to so many different places.

(Chef Duane Keller) — Chris Hill

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

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport — Duffy Daugherty

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

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. — Duffy Daugherty

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. — Heyneke Meyer

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going. — Richie Sambora

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. — Barack Obama

Absurdly, I haven't yet got around to saying that football is a wonderful sport, but of course it is. Goals have a rarity value that points and runs and sets do not, and so there will always be that thrill, the thrill of seeing someone do something that can only be done three or four times in a whole game if you are lucky, not at all if you are not. And I love the pace of it, its lack of formula; and I love the way that small men can destroy big men ... in a way that they can't in other contact sports, and the way that t he best team does not necessarily win. And there's the athleticism ... , and the way that strength and intelligence have to combine. It allows players to look beautiful and balletic in a way that some sports do not: a perfectly-timed diving header, or a perfectly-struck volley, allow the body to achieve a poise and grace that some sportsmen can never exhibit. — Nick Hornby

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

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
— Paul Fussell

Politics is a contact sport. — Steve Chabot

We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting. — Steve Yzerman

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport. — Troy Vincent

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

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 think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport. — Sherry Turkle

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