Marouane Fellaini Quotes

I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

I'm not going to take it easy on the guy when he catches the football and not try and hit him because he's a friend of mine. It doesn't happen.

I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don't like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.

I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.

Tackling is my favorite part of the game.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

It's brutal out on the football field.

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

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

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.

No one has ever bitten me, and I've never bitten anyone on the court.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

A man is not scared of playing, of having any contact, and you won't shut him down if you kick him - he will just ask for the ball all the time.

I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I've never been an overly aggressive person.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.

I don't know how many times you see 10s tackle each other.

Have I been overly aggressive in some sparring sessions? Yes, I have. There's things, there's punches and things I've thrown that's been too aggressive and I've gotten to where I've had to tell myself, yeah, I shouldn't have done that, kind of thing.

I don't have no issue with any guy. I'm a football player. I'm a competitor. When we're in the field, we're going to compete and be competitive. It's not personal between none of these guys. It's all in the game.

It is okay to play tough and try to hit guys hard in the course of the play - that's fine - but I don't like unnecessary roughness or things that happen after the play.

We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

I don't complain if I get a hard tackle.