John McGinn Quotes

It's football. Sometimes it's unfair.

I'd be champ already if it wasn't for the cheaters.

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

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

If I am lining up for a race, and I know there is someone there who cheats, it upsets me.

Nobody wants to win a game on a bad call.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

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.

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

It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.

I should think wrestling is the most positive thing in the world. The fact is, behind the scenes, there's stuff that goes on that's bush-league. It's laughable.

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.

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

I think if you deflate a football, then you're definitely cheating.

When you play cards and find yourself in a tricky situation, you'll use some little strategies - and that is what I have done from time to time. That is why my national teammates have called me a cheat. They are not completely right, as I am not the only person to have done it. But they are not wrong either.

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

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

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.

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

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

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