Kieran Trippier Quotes

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

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

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

In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

Officials called a foul; there's nothing you can do. A foul is a foul. If it was a hard foul, it was a hard foul. There is nothing you can do. So you just move on.

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

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.

If they're going to foul me, I'm going to step to the line and make some free throws.

The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

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

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

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect 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.

In football, contact is normal, especially in England.

We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.

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.

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 can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

People would really hate playing against me if I could touch them.

You have to try to win the ball at all costs and if someone doesn't get it quite right people get injured.

Penalties are part of the game.

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.

I've done it before, and I might do it whenever we need to as a big guy... I'll take it. A hard foul is part of the game, which is good.