Quotes About Fairness

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

There is no such thing as sportsmanship.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

I want to show good sportsmanship.

I wanted to be positive. I have good sportsmanship. You leave everything on a good note, you just smile and shake hands.

Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.

What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment to be spread more fairly across society.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.

I think when I was in college I thought that, you know, like, sort of giving everyone an equal amount and spreading it around seems like a wonderful idea.

It would be bad for the squad if one player had a much higher salary than the rest.

I have to treat all of the players at the same level with the same rules and same demands. It's difficult to understand, because the outside world is thinking when you pay a lot for the player, then you have to put him in the squad.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

I'm always competitive, but if I didn't win fair and square, I didn't win. And I want to win if I'm genuinely better than my competitor.

People said I was tanking, but Billie Jean beat me fair and square.

Without justice you won't have stability.

I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

Every player is different, but I try to treat everyone the same. On a day-to-day basis, I come across other footballers and club staff, and I try to treat all the same, from the security guard to Lionel Messi.