Quotes About Fouls

Going to the rim, you either get fouled or get an easy two.

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

I'm one of those players that wakes up and has like three fouls already.

What makes me unique is my ability to adapt to different situations and switch onto smaller guards and stay out there. Another component to being out there on the floor - and this is something that I learned as my college career went on - was staying on the floor, literally, comes down to not picking up fouls.

Part of my game is about winning those fouls and getting in good positions.

In Europe, I used to post a lot because they call fouls over there easier than over here.

Looking at myself, I'm a center, I'm 275 pounds, I'm taking hard fouls, making decisions where 'nothing easy' is my favorite. Sometimes in the middle, sometimes you get screened, sometimes it's an illegal screen, and that stuff is part of the game.

The players who defend against him make fouls because it's always hard to defend Neymar and take the ball without fouling him.

Now, if basketball had a designated foul-?shot shooter, maybe I'd consider. The other team fouls you, you get to pay them back. Boom. But that's not the way it works, in basketball or in life.

The craft of officiating is taught that people come and pay top dollar to see people like Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, all the stars, and you have to make sure when you blow the whistle against those individuals that it's a foul that you basically can't let go.

I check into the game and the ref cleans the whistle off, 'OK 98s coming in.' I'm one of those players that's physical and I use my fouls.

I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

I get lots of fouls on me, but it is no foul because I am physical. Because I don't go down, that is the problem as well. But I will keep playing my game. Why would I change? It's my game.

First year in the league, I tried to block everything. And I'd foul out. I averaged the most fouls per minute.

Whitaker ran... he made a lot of fouls.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Derbies are always well fought and with lots of fouls and interruptions.

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

Some of the yellow cards I get are for tactical fouls, which is fair enough, but I don't like the others - the ones for protesting.

I'm always a player who has taken fairly rough treatment, to be honest. I think my time in Scotland typified that because I think there was one game where I set a record for being fouled ten or 11 times in a game.

I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.

As a quick, tricky player, I've been told that I don't go down enough because I've always tried to stay on my feet or I don't win clever fouls around the box. But when you are quick, the fastest way to be stopped is by being fouled so it happens to me a lot, even if I don't always maximise the opportunity.

I see a lot of fouls on Messi, and he's not the type to overreact.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.