Marko Arnautovic Quotes

I am only doing my job, and if I score against Mark Hughes' team, it is nothing personal.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

Zidane was the most unpleasant among my colleagues. I have never liked him on the pitch and we have always clashed. Albeit a champion for his class, I have never managed to see his fair play.

Just like in everything else, there are people in football who you don't particularly like.

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.

I've played in San Diego for nine years and gone against my new team a bunch of times, and I've always envied their success. I've always envied the way they play, the way they go about business.

There will always be rivalry on the field. Off the field, we are friends, but on it, we have to do our job.

I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn't matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.

In the World Cup, you have to respect every team.

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.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

There's no sentiment in football.

You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.

As players, we were paid to do a job we loved - in my case, at the club I supported. And nothing I did could be allowed to interfere with that. The manager would not have permitted it.

I don't like disrespecting other teams.

It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.

Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.