Rob Andrew Quotes

I love this sport and I don't want to get involved in politics.

Obviously, I have arguments with people on the pitch, with all the emotions.

You can love me or you can hate me.

You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.

I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

I'm not too big on cats, and sometimes I'll say something like that, and people get so mad at me. But the truth is, I don't care if they get mad.

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

I never saw a hotter argument on so unexciting a subject.

It is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

I think it's cool to provoke something in people.

You need to separate the fans and the players.

It's football - fans are passionate about it, and sometimes it's difficult for players to take, but we are good men, and we all make mistakes, and we are footballers.

This is a game where if you don't have people who dislike you, then you don't know what it is to be liked. I've had a lot of dislike thrown at me in this game, but I've also had a lot of love.

I have never been a massive fan of intergender wrestling.

I don't have any use for the hatred in a football stadium.

Live television is the hottest medium. My passion for sports debate runs hot enough without a camera transporting it into your living room with 10 times more impact.

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.