Top 40 Marko Arnautovic Quotes

Before, back in the day when I was young, when you had some problems, you dealt with it with your hands. No one had a knife.

It’s clear that I want to compete with the best players.

People look at Instagram and say they want money, they want this, they want that.

You have some defenders who don’t like you and you don’t like them. And you know from the first minute, they’re going to do everything to take you out of the game.

I am not saying Gary Neville is a nobody. He has accomplished a lot in his life, he is a legend. But as a coach? Let him stay on the TV.

I’ve always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

I try to enjoy my football, this is what I live for.

I’ve changed a lot because I am a father.

The German journalists still ring me and ask me to come back because without me their newspapers are empty – but I’m happy for that.

I turned from a fan favourite to a player they hated in no time.

Money is not everything.

The media talks a lot. The media, they don’t know. They are not in the team, they are not training with me, they are not playing with me, but they are talking a lot about me in Europe.

I’ve played in Serie A, the Bundesliga, Holland and now the Premier League. They are all different.

When I was in Enschende, beside my apartment there was a field with cows grazing in it. Then, I’m in Milan and discover Fashion Week, the restaurants, the clubs and only beautiful women.

I get paid to play football and show everything I’ve got.

People claimed I refused to play. But that is not true and a complete lie.

Of course when I was young, I was a little bit crazy.

I’m quiet.

I just want to give advice to everyone to go the right way. It is important for me. The most important thing is to listen to your family.

No matter which defenders are in front of me, they better be scared because of me.

A lot of times I have fans asking for pictures and they say ‘smile,’ but I can’t. It’s not because I’m a mean person or don’t want to be in the picture but I just can’t do it when you say ‘go, smile.’

Everywhere I went, Rapid Vienna or Austria Vienna, there was always a problem. I just wanted a coach who said: ‘Just go out and win us the game.’

The problem is that people think once and talk 10 times. It’s better to think 10 times before you talk once.

I cannot rule anything out but my goal is to stay in England. I feel very comfortable there and I’ve performed well. There I would be accepted. In Germany it was a bit different and I had ups and downs.

I like to dance, I love music and sometimes in the changing room I am dancing.

I promised my mother that I’d be a famous footballer one day after seeing players such as Croatia’s Davor Suker and Serbia’s Predrag Mijatovic shine in France.

I used to do taekwondo when I was small but I don’t like to fight, I like to have fun.

I am not a person who wants to hurt people.

It’s better I keep my mouth shut. Let my feet do the talking.

When you get support and you are in the box there is no better feeling than to score goals and make assists.

I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had injuries. I think of my group of friends, I am the only one who is a professional footballer.

I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. That is the best answer.

I had a slow start at West Ham, that’s right. I came here and expectations were high because the fans were not quite happy with it. But as football players we have to deal with the pressure.

You can’t keep losing and say nothing in the dressing room.

I don’t like to praise myself – that I am the quickest, that I am the strongest, that I am the most technical guy – I never do that.

If I was a normal player at West Ham and wanted to join a Chinese club, nobody would have said anything. But since I was a leader at West Ham and thought about that offer, I was suddenly a bad man.

My business is to perform on the pitch, to put in performances and that is what I want to do.

I was young at Inter and did things I wouldn’t do again.

It feels special to me to be a West Ham player.

Everyone thinks that footballers go on the pitch and they have so much money that they think about themselves. But I am not like that.