Adam Vinatieri Quotes

I went for a tackle with Radamel Falcao against Colombia, and he just dropped to the floor. I said to him 'Just get up!'

You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

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

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.

Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

If you are a referee, it's not easy because everyone wants to win, and so there will be cheating.

I'd be champ already if it wasn't for the cheaters.

On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.

Sport is dirty if you want to win, but I am not a dirty player.

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

Don't tell me that the rules prohibit you from hitting a guy up top. You have a whole target area above his knee up to his neck that you can hit.

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

There should be no tolerance for cheaters, especially in fighting.

A guy who is walking out of his crease purposefully because he wants to take advantage is wrong.

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

When there's too many teams that are not trying to win, that poisons the game, poisons the fan experience, and it creates bandwagon fans.