Quotes About Sportsmanship

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

It's fun to win, sure, but if you only have fun when you win, you completely lose the joy of just playing a game, and being part of a team that works together. You're not going to win every game you play, so if winning is the only way you have fun, you're going to have a bad time pretty often.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

If your policy is win at all costs then you are going to hurt people

I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

With five minutes to go, Wimsey watched the first ball of the over come skimming down towards him. It was a beauty. It was jam. He smote it as Saul smote the Philistines. It soared away in a splendid parabola, struck the pavilion roof with a noise like the crack of doom, rattled down the galvanized iron roofing, bounced into the enclosure where the scorers were sitting and broke a bottle of lemonade. The match was won.

You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.

I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

I'll try to be young mentally and physically as long as I can to play as many games as possible, but I know, at one point, it will start to be more difficult.

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

I'm fine at basketball. I can ride the pine with the best of them.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

I love football and I believe in fair play, both on and off the pitch.

You can be rivals out on the pitch, but respect is the most important thing.

This game is very humbling and you have to take it one pitch at a time, one day at a time and compete.

Many players enter the pitch just to change shirts, but I don't.

My father instilled in me the need to behave correctly on and off the pitch.

Enjoy the games, and go on the pitch with happiness, and go game by game.