Le'Veon Bell Quotes

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

There's shouting, there's blood, there's boogers, there's a whole thing. I mean, there's spitting, there's fighting, there's ripped jerseys. There's someone grabbing someone's throat. I mean, it's why you have football.

You can't do something stupid at any time. If you do, you're going to get technicals or flagrant fouls, or you're going to get kicked out of the game or whatever.

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.

The Argentinians provoke and are always whingeing to the referee to try and change his opinion. It starts before the match. You see their body language, how they gesticulate, how they try to influence the referee. That is not part of the game. That is a lack of respect. It's their mentality and character, and we'll have to adjust.

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.

If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.

I think if you deflate a football, then you're definitely cheating.

How many people can say that they've punched a fan?

There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.

We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.

I've seen people fall over and get fouls. I don't do that.

Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.

It is okay to play tough and try to hit guys hard in the course of the play - that's fine - but I don't like unnecessary roughness or things that happen after the play.