Quotes About Integrity

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do – play it right and with respect.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.