I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
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.
Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.
And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.
I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.
The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
I have been in many battles with great players, and not once have I ever tried to do anything dirty as far as taking a player out of a game.
Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.
In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
You can't put your arm around the referee! That's ungentlemanly conduct.
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.
There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.
The Russians are the dirtiest players I’ve ever seen.
I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.
I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.
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.
You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.
I just don't like when guys come and do dirty plays.
My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.
Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.
I don't get wrapped up in the politics of going down to win a penalty or getting an opponent sent off.
There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball's on when you're about to play your shot.
I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games.
