Kieran Trippier Quotes

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

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.

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

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.

You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

I admit to becoming frustrated by the frequency of diving in the Champions League.

I've seen people fall over and get fouls. I don't do that.

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.

If I ever saw one of my team-mates diving, I'd definitely have a word

Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked.

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

It's just, some players I don't respect. Just their playing style of basketball. I don't respect it. I feel like it's basically cheating and I don't respect a cheater. If that's your tactic to winning, I don't respect you.

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.

Ronnie Lott - he got a really good shot on me once and I learned that unless I wanted to shorten my career, I needed to steer clear of his path.

There should be no tolerance for cheaters, especially in fighting.

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

Players from Holland and Scandinavia aren't divers, but those from Spain and Italy go down far too easily for my liking.

Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

Sometimes defenders kick me without the ball and I don't say anything and no one sees.