Marouane Fellaini Quotes

The English league itself is very strong physically, very demanding.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

The Premier League is a physical league if you want to compare it to other leagues.

I feel that every league is very competitive.

I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It's something I enjoy. I'm a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.

It's in my blood to be an athlete, to be a hockey player.

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

[Commenting on football:] To see some of our best-educated boys spending the afternoon knocking each other down, while thousands cheer them on, hardly gives a picture of a peace-loving nation.

We play very fine schools on any given day.

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

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

I can do my job with the best of my peers in the National Football League.

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

It's always a battle to play against Diego Costa.

The atmosphere in England is absolutely amazing and I'd be delighted to play in the Premier League.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

I think it is also the most demanding league; the pace of the game in the EPL is something else and rightly for me is maybe the best league in the world.

I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.

Whoever says basketball ain't a contact sport definitely lied.

I'll never be in a dunk contest again. I don't ever want to be a part of it.

Football is a tough game. It's a tough game for tough people.

English football pleases me a lot. It's the most keenly contested.

I have more respect for amateur wrestlers, especially collegiate ones, than anyone else. It's a gutsy sport with no real payoff except for knowing that you were better than someone else. It doesn't have big crowds, it doesn't have big money, but it is fun going one on one.

The big difference between league football in England and Spain is that more teams compete here. In Spain, it is usually only two teams going for the title, which is not necessarily a bad thing because you get great matches between the two, but I think the English league is better for being more competitive.