The provoker and the reaction.
On headbutting:
"You hear those things once and you try to walk away. That’s what
I wanted to do because I am retiring. You hear it a second time and
then a third time …""Do you imagine that in a World Cup final like that with just 10 minutes to go to the end of my career, I am going to do something like that because it gives me pleasure?"
- Zidane
Takes a whole lot for a man to smile at insults and walk away silently.