A Quote by John Thune

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

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John Thune
American - Politician
Born: January 7, 1961

Politics, as the cliche goes, is a full contact sport. When you choose to play, you're going to get hurt.

Steve Kornacki

I'm told that I look like a nice girl. But, yes, I do a full contact sport, and when people ask what I do, they are a bit surprised when I say, 'A martial art, a full contact sport.'

Carmen Marton

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

Malcolm Turnbull

I know with my size, a lot of people might think I'm like a slasher, a make-you-miss guy, which I can do that. But I also like to lower my shoulder and get the tough yards, too. I like contact. I like to mix it up.

Javon Ringer

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

Mike Tyson

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

Phil McGraw

Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

Joe Barton

It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.

Zachary Quinto

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

Sherry Turkle

Politics is a contact sport.

Steve Chabot

It is a mistake to mix politics and sport.

Sergio Ramos

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Michael Nutter

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Keith Jackson

I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship.