Marouane Fellaini Quotes

It's always a battle to play against Diego Costa.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I hated everybody I played against, and they hated me. That's the way hockey should be played.

When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you're going to be in a smash-mouth game.

Football is a violent, violent sport, and you have to practice that way in order to get at elite levels on Saturday, in my opinion.

I think the Swansea-Cardiff rivalry is good.

Derbies are always well fought and with lots of fouls and interruptions.

When you play the Oakland Raiders when you're the Kansas City Chiefs, you know they're going to come out with that mentality that they're going to win. They're going to come out fighting. It's a rivalry game.

You know that when you come to England, there are a lot of players who like to play a more physical game.

English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.

I always experience each game the same way, but the Clasico has something extra because you can't play one every day.

I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.

Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.

It's brutal out on the football field.

I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

I like to win; I like to compete; I like to sack the quarterback.

Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.

I was always fighting with everyone when I was a kid. I was playing with people two or three years older than me, and I had to survive. So I love the physical game, the contact. And I don't know why, but I think football is like this. It is not just touching the ball and stringing together 50 pretty passes consecutively.

I prefer beating Real Madrid to beating Manchester City!