Contact Sports Quotes

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

  Irwin Shaw

  Sports, Football, Hurt

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• 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

  Sports, Hate, Mean

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• 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

  Sports, Football, Shopping

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• 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

  Sports, Football, Stars

  Source: eppc.org

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Sports, Football, Commitment

  "Tom Brady on Deflategate, Gisele and Donald Trump". Interview with John Carucci, www.boston.com. October 15, 2015.

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• 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

  Sports, Wise, People

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• 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

  Life, Sports, Football

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

  Phil McGraw

  Sports, Boards, Life Is

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Football, Nfl Players

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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• Politics is a contact sport.

  Steve Chabot

  Sports, Contact

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• 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

  Sports, Spiritual, Fighting

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• Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

  Duffy Daugherty

  Funny, Sports, Football

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• 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

  Sports, Eye, Ideas

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• Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

  Michael Nutter

  Sports, Philadelphia, Contact

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• 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

  Sports, Mean, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Mark Shields

  Sports, Two, Elbows

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

  Mark Zupan

  Sports, Mean, Play

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

  Alice Cooper

  Sports, Golf, Play

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• Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Play, Technique

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

  Heyneke Meyer

  Sports, Dancing, Rugby

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

  Thomas Szasz

  Sports, Sex, Fun

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1981). “Sex by prescription”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Political, Election

  "The Candidate: How the son of a Kenyan economist became an Illinois Everyman". www.newyorker.com. May 31, 2004.

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• 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

  Birthday, Sports, Writing

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