Red Card Quotes

I admit to becoming frustrated by the frequency of diving in the Champions League.

The World Cup is a competition in which everything needs to work to your advantage. Players need to be fit, decisions have to go in your favour, and details such as a red card can cost a team dearly.

Pogba's a massive player. I know him a little bit. He's unbelievable. He took a red card, and that's the way it goes: you have injuries and suspensions.

I got sent off a few times in my life, but I never lost my head. I mistimed tackles, and I made mistakes.

When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.

Thank God there was no yellow card in basketball because I would get a red card every game.

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

In football, you get criticised if you are sent off. It's my style of play, and nobody can make me change that. Even if I get another red card, then that happens. You become cleverer, maybe look more, and since my red card, I think things have improved.

I know about the rules but this should not be a red card for the keeper. Arsenal was punished enough with the penalty.

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

When I got the red card all the Chelsea players come around. It felt like I had a lot of babies around me.

When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.

Sometimes the opponents deserve a red card, but instead, they carry on playing with 11 men. So you also have to be more lucky in the future.