Believe Quote by Frank Shamrock

We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow…

— Steve Yzerman

Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything…

— John Hodgman

I was a huge boxing fan, but it's a sport where the guys punch each other in the head. I thought maybe I shouldn't…

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

You know you're going to get hit when you fight and if you don't want to get hit, you shouldn't be in this sport.

— Yair Rodriguez

People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening…

— Bill Bradley

As sportspeople, we have a power we don't even know. If we get together and talk, things change. If we stand up, people stand…

— Demba Ba

Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives you discipline…

— Amir Khan

This is not a sport. It's only a sport before and after the fight. In the cage it's not a sport - it's a…

— Marlon Vera

When I got into this sport, I thought all I had to do was beat people and finish fights, and everything else would take…

— Demetrious Johnson

I don't think getting punched in the face is too fun. I keep going because this is what I am. Every time I fight,…

— Valentina Shevchenko

“All sports are violent and represent primitive nature of our being, and before one learns that, one gets absorbs into the coded violence of…

— Raj Doctor

It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.

— Daniel Jacobs