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In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

— Sidney Crosby

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

— Wayne Gretzky

In playoff football, you've got to be physical. You've got to run the ball.

— Ezekiel Elliott

I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.

— Michael Vartan

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

— Emma Watson

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

— Wayne Gretzky

If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.

— David Belle

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

— Jaromir Jagr

✗Opposing Perspectives

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

— Mario Lemieux

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

— Jeff Garlin

Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.

— Viswanathan Anand