Gary Lineker Quotes

If you watch me play, you'll see how often I get kicked. I don't go off the pitch and cut myself to act like I've been kicked.

So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.

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

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

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

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.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

Players from Holland and Scandinavia aren't divers, but those from Spain and Italy go down far too easily for my liking.

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

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

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

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.

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.

I don't get wrapped up in the politics of going down to win a penalty or getting an opponent sent off.

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

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

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.

When a player cheats, you can't have a gold medal, right?

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

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

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.