Vinnie Jones Quotes

There are a lot of bad people in football, and players can be afraid to go to stadiums and get abused.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

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.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.

If you hit the table after missing a ball, you get fined. If you swear, you get fined. You can't even tweet what you're thinking without getting fined. Players can't show their personality and therefore fans can't relate to them.

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

In Brazil, I walked around with a lot of security. Fans were threatening to fight me.

Fans in Brazil cross the line. A few times at Fluminense, the fans would go to the airport after we had played away to shout at us.

We need a tough approach to make justice prevail and, also, because sports should not be damaged by the violence of hooligans.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward. Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali. You get these rivalries in boxing - not that often, so when you do get them, why do you want to sanitise it?

Thursday night football should be illegal.

I will be completely honest: when I fought in Manchester, they were very cruel to me. One fan actually spat directly in my face, and he was lucky enough where it hit my mouth.

Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.

It doesn't change the way we play, I'll tell you that much. If we hit a guy and get fined, we get fined.

Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.

I think the NFL needs a more stringent policy when it comes to domestic violence. Make the punishment work.

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

Looking back and knowing what I do, I believe the people who started the initial surge at Heysel were not Liverpool fans.

Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous. I know how we should handle him. Let's bring him back here and take him to Cleveland Browns stadium and dress him up as a referee. They'll know how to take care of him!

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.