Mats Hummels Quotes

It goes without saying that no one at United ever expected any help. We understood that decisions can go against you. We believed we were the better team, and therefore, if the referee got his decisions right, then we would win the vast majority of our games.

There is no doubt that my former manager Sir Alex exerted an influence over some referees. He was the master of dropping a comment into his Friday press conference - for instance, how long it had been since we had been given a penalty, or the treatment meted out to a player like Cristiano Ronaldo.

Nobody wants to win a game on a bad call.

I loss that fight to Phil Davis, but I'm not convinced on that fight. Because it wasn't fair for me. I'd like to do another fight.

I don't get wrapped up in the politics of going down to win a penalty or getting an opponent sent off.

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

We don't ever show up trying to throw games.

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

If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.

With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.

I don't follow football, because it's predetermined.

For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That's one way of seeing the world. It's dog eat dog. It's, sadly, always going to be there.

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.

In MMA, you can literally cheat over and over again, and it's OK. The media will back you.

You can be the better team and still lose.

Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

Sometimes you can lose games unluckily or the other team is better than you and has a great day as well. That can happen in football.

In every sport you get cheats.

I don't like all the cheating that's going in mixed martial arts. I don't know what percentage of high-level fighters do it, but I think it would be a significant amount.

Racism really, really makes me mad. I can see identical traits in people from other sides of the world and I can't believe some people would treat other human beings like they weren't even the same species.

I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

If you ask me if I got hit in Game 7 because they stole signs, I don't think so. The Astros have great players who don't have to do that. So I think that whether or not they stole signs, the results wouldn't have changed.