Neil Robertson Quotes

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

Within football, there is a lot of trash talk, a lot of stuff that's not been made aware to everybody.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player.

No one seems to want to do anything about diving in the game apart from me. I'm still amazed by it. Kids everywhere are watching, all copying it. No one seems to care about it.

I went for a tackle with Radamel Falcao against Colombia, and he just dropped to the floor. I said to him 'Just get up!'

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

You can't put your arm around the referee! That's ungentlemanly conduct.

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.

We went for 50-something years and never had a system to fine anybody for disparaging remarks in the sport. We're the only sport on the planet that had that. So we simply in the last couple of years changed that policy because we thought we needed to.

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.

Football sometimes has a bad reputation. Some of that is deserved... and some of it isn't.

Penalties are part of the game.

There has to be measures for players to know the consequences for their actions.

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'm not a dirty player.

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 can't do something stupid at any time. If you do, you're going to get technicals or flagrant fouls, or you're going to get kicked out of the game or whatever.

The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.

When people start talking to me about slow play and how I'm killing the game, I'm doing this and that to the game, that is complete and utter you-know-what.