Mario Gomez Quotes

Just like in everything else, there are people in football who you don't particularly like.

It's football. There's emotions.

The nature of football can bring out the best in people, but it can also bring out the worst in people.

Football is a passionate game, and the emotions are intense. As long you respect the people around you, I don't see any problem with that.

It's football - fans are passionate about it, and sometimes it's difficult for players to take, but we are good men, and we all make mistakes, and we are footballers.

I don't have no issue with any guy. I'm a football player. I'm a competitor. When we're in the field, we're going to compete and be competitive. It's not personal between none of these guys. It's all in the game.

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

Competing is different than violence. Sport is love. It's passion. There's no passion in hurting people.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

I don’t want people chitting and chatting. Once the game starts, we watch football.

Sometimes football is not just.

Going up against a great champion like Cavani, giving each other hell for 90 minutes, then being able to walk off as opponents who respect one another is the beauty of sport.

It's all you hear on a cricket field - 'Knock his head off, knock his head off.' Cricket has gone too far. It shouldn't be posturing, abusing.

I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

Football is a competition to see who's the best, not a battle. It's not a war. When it ends, we're still alive.

When I'm asked to define football, I always talk about emotions, the heart, love. It's something you feel deep down inside when you enter a stadium, raise your eyes, and look at the stands, the fans coming in.

What I love about England is that the fans have great respect for the players on and off the pitch.

Football is a game of emotions.

There are some athletes who don't like me.

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