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Quotes About Integrity

I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.
~ Mike Candrea
Win or lose, do it fairly.
~ Knute Rockne
I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.
~ Ryne Sandberg
I have never used steroids. Period.
~ Rafael Palmeiro
I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
~ Andy Murray
Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
~ Earl Weaver
I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
~ Wade Boggs
It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.
~ Marion Jones
Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
~ Olga Korbut
Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.
~ Dawn Fraser
To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
~ Michael Novak
I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
~ Arthur Ashe
I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.
~ Gabrielle Reece
I didn't like the way the game was being played.
~ Mario Lemieux
If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen
~ Ryne Sandberg
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
~ Norman Mailer
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
~ Curt Flood
Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.
~ Ana Ivanovic
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
~ Jesse Owens
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
~ Mantak Chia
I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
~ Knute Rockne
I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.
~ Allyson Felix
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld