Top 80 Foul Quotes

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn’t one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can’t cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

Football’s the big cheese, if you like. It’s easy to have a swipe. There’s a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it’s called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?

Never use curse words, foul language, or racial slurs, or say anything about a person’s appearance. Just work with being smart-mouthed.

There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn’t smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.

It’s up to the referee to decide what is and isn’t a foul.

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.

Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman’s sport.

I was a janitor when I was 16, cleaning out garbage rooms in Washington, D.C., and they were foul. It gets really hot in D.C. in the summertime, and you then take on the essence of garbage. People would stand away from me on the sidewalk as I came toward them.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Officials called a foul; there’s nothing you can do. A foul is a foul. If it was a hard foul, it was a hard foul. There is nothing you can do. So you just move on.

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.

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

As the flagrant foul’s official mascot, Anthony Mason had the genteel refinement of an intentional elbow to the eye socket.

I’m not any good at foul language or anything like that.

When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I’d dunk or it’d be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.

I’m an old-fashioned player, an old-school player who will foul you and foul you hard.

The abolition of the double sanction for a foul in the box is a welcome change. There are times that you cannot help but stop your opponent in the box, with your momentum forcing you to make a challenge. Fouls can’t be avoided in that situation but your intention was fair.

Would I – or any defender – tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.

The ‘Lost’ pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA.

In the Premier League, they don’t give a foul even when it is a foul. We can’t dive or pretend things.

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The ‘dazzling royals’ have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

Every religion there’s something foul going on.

Sometimes people think that if you’re always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you’re automatically a good sport. I don’t believe that.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

In the past years, I got in a lot of foul trouble because I was out of position, or because I was just too aggressive. I was trying to block too many shots. It’s really just learning when to take a chance at blocking shots, and to get to spots early.

God knows I’m a good guy, I’m known in the industry as a good guy. I’m not known to be a foul, evil dude that you’ve got to watch out for and my name is not muddy in the industry.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

The good thing about ‘Have I Got News For You’ is it’s a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It’s a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

I’d go to Starbucks and order a frappuccino and blueberry muffin and that was me for the day. Not only would I beat myself up internally if I consumed anything else, I’d be in a foul mood if we were working somewhere there was no Starbucks. It was an obsession – and a deeply unhealthy one.

Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results – especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

When I foul, I’m gonna make sure you know I’m fouling.

WWE is a PG and a family product. Everybody can watch and enjoy WWE, whereas in the past, the parents were worried about what their kids were watching because of the blood, foul language, etc.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It’s very thin, it’s made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

That’s how you get better on defense; not just ‘oh, man, my guy beat me,’ but you have to think about, ‘okay, my man beat me, so I either have to pick up the next man, or I’m going to give somebody a foul.

Ian Rankin’s Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.

At the end of the day, guys don’t want to foul, especially guys in the starting unit.

You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he’s going to the basket, you don’t give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can’t go in the lane.

The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.

I turned down ‘American Gigolo.’ There are many films – like ‘Ghostbusters’ – that I turned down… The first one I did was ‘Foul Play’ with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down ‘Animal House’ – I turned that down.

If they’re going to foul me, I’m going to step to the line and make some free throws.

If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

There’s something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

He’s so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

I always say the Premier League is the best in the world, and I still feel it is an honour to be playing here, but I think English football suits my game. Football is more physical here; the ref is not whistling every foul.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that’s difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are – that’s what the rules of the game are for.

That’s something to be proud of – to have people say that you’re the kind of guy who doesn’t know how to quit. Try to be that man the next time you foul up: You’ll enjoy more success than you ever would by cursing the guys living the charmed lives.

Well, I tapped into maybe arguably the worst rule in basketball. I wish they would just take it out or amend it greatly. It’s a terrible rule, block or charge. I shouldn’t be able to stand there and it’s a foul. Come on!