Jim McMahon Quotes

If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.

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

The rules of the game really have given the offense an advantage, especially with pass interference.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

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.

I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.

It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.

Sometimes the opponents deserve a red card, but instead, they carry on playing with 11 men. So you also have to be more lucky in the future.

I have heard what has been said, but most of the time, I recover the ball without making a foul.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

Rugby takes its toll.

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

I couldn't identify just one, but there's numerous rule changes and points of emphasis that have reflected a change on the field almost immediately. It's hard to avoid the horse-collar tackle, for example, but the players understand why the rule is in there - because of the injury rate prior to us making that a personal foul.

Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don't we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don't understand why there's any rules.

I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

Sometimes you get players who are faster than you or who can trick you with some skill. Sometimes you make the foul.

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

There could probably be a penalty called on every single play. So the refs have a tough job.

I feel like I'm going to get fouled a lot.

Don't tell me that the rules prohibit you from hitting a guy up top. You have a whole target area above his knee up to his neck that you can hit.

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.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

Thank God there was no yellow card in basketball because I would get a red card every game.

Penalties are part of the game.