Eden Hazard Quotes

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.

The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.

On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.

I do not like to use a player solely to make a member of the opposing team, for one simple reason: when we cannot retrieve the ball, we are forced to defend with ten men, giving the opponents an advantage.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

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

I'm always a player who has taken fairly rough treatment, to be honest. I think my time in Scotland typified that because I think there was one game where I set a record for being fouled ten or 11 times in a game.

It's football. Sometimes it's unfair.

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

Football is a contact sport and sometimes is difficult to measure that.

So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.

As someone who has carved out a career in this league by making winning plays, being tough on defense and just generally doing the dirty work for my team, I always hesitate to say any player is unguardable. I just hate that term.

You can't do something stupid at any time. If you do, you're going to get technicals or flagrant fouls, or you're going to get kicked out of the game or whatever.

Because I was a bit smaller than the other kids, my dad knew that winning the ball in the air wasn't going to be easy for me.

Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.

First of all, I would love to see people remember me as a good passer, not as a good flopper. But flopping was, in some period of my career, a part of my game, especially against Shaquille O'Neal. It was the only way I could try to stop him. And I did well, I guess.

When I played, I just wanted to guard the best player, and I didn't want him to score. That was just it, just competing. Along the way, it just kept building that I could be a great defender.

I never want to hurt a player but being physical is different. Body to body.

Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.

International rugby is an unforgiving arena.

I just like people that bring in a very competitive mentality to pro wrestling.

I don't want advantages for my team. I want the same rest as our opponents. It's very difficult to do this? I don't think so.

The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.