Dusan Tadic Quotes

I'm only doing my job, and if I score against Mark Hughes' team, it's nothing personal.

I've played in San Diego for nine years and gone against my new team a bunch of times, and I've always envied their success. I've always envied the way they play, the way they go about business.

As players, we were paid to do a job we loved - in my case, at the club I supported. And nothing I did could be allowed to interfere with that. The manager would not have permitted it.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Whoever I suit up for... I'm going to do my job.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. My job is to come out here and hoop, and that's what I'm going to do.

I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn't matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.

I never wish ill will saying 'I wish this guy won or this guy lost.' I really don't care. The best guy, let them have their night.

It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between.

When you do what you're supposed to do and don't complain much, I think the fans, media, players and front office appreciate and respect that.

No one man is superior to the game.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership.

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.

Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

I just want to stay professional.

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.