Bloody Quote by Anonymous

Football is a sport that provides hostility.

— Nicolas Otamendi

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

— Woody Hayes

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game:…

— Troy Polamalu

“[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…

— George Orwell

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

— Bud Wilkinson

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from…

— Ed Reed

I mean, football is a violent sport.

— Eric Reid

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

— Rinus Michels

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

— Will Shields

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless…

— Ian Mortimer

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

— Malcolm Allison

Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all…

— Simon Heffer