Edgar Davids Quotes

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.

As a player, I loved being tackled, whether it was in training or in a game. I took a full-blooded challenge as an invitation to do exactly the same thing to an opponent. I would wait for my opportunity and nine times out of 10, I would get him back.

Football's football. You're going to come across the good and the bad, but you've got to take it all in your stride.

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

Sometimes you lose; that is football.

I get kicked every game, it's part of football, I just try to get on with it.

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

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

What happens on the field should stay on the field.

Football is a passionate game, and the emotions are intense. As long you respect the people around you, I don't see any problem with that.

As a professional, you're taught from a young age to despise losing. But I began to accept that, in football, you will win some games, and you will lose some games, with draws here and there, too. That's just the nature of the game.

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

Playing football can be damn harsh, but every day is a fight for equality.

This game is about engagement and respect, whether you're playing in the Champions League or in the fourth division.

I have respect for every level of football.

I am physical, not aggressive. Well, aggressive with the ball, but I don't kick people.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

It's so wrong when some players think, 'I scored five goals; therefore, I am a god of football.' You're nobody.

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.

If you look up what I did in Arizona, you'll see that I fought my way through training camp. I didn't have a problem fighting my teammates.

It's part of football to accept your responsibility.

People think of rugby players as being tough but it's another thing to stand in front of someone and get kicked, punched, taken down. In rugby you have two contact sessions a week and you play a game on the weekend.

In Germany, it is normal, when games end, you shake hands with your players.