Quotes About Sportsmanship

Steve Smith is a marvelous player.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting are anything but conventional, and you can't frown on Steve Waugh for playing his slog-sweep because it's so effective.

I broke Steve McMahon's nose twice in one night.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.

I played at Anfield twice when I was with Stoke and it's a hard place to go, we all know that Liverpool is one of the best teams in the Premier League.

If you ask me if I got hit in Game 7 because they stole signs, I don't think so. The Astros have great players who don't have to do that. So I think that whether or not they stole signs, the results wouldn't have changed.

Whenever you play the game, you just want the game to be on the up and up. You don't want to ever lose a game because you felt like it was stolen from you.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

There is no magic formula for stopping Messi.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Offence doesn't concern me. It's easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block.

It's best to keep a strategic fight and try to win because the level of the sport is so high.

Do I clap along with them? No. By applauding I would be saying: Hell, Reilhan, it wasn't that important, it was just good fun. I would be saying: You only beat a part of me, and the rest, what does it care, it applauds you. But Reilhan has beaten all of me. He who applauds his victor denies that, and belittles him. Being a good loser is a despicable evasion, an insult to the sporting spirit. All good losers should be barred from practicing a sport.

Henri Pélissier once said: 'Always attack as late as you can, but before the others do.

Any excuse to throw a rider out of a race is OK by me, but not that kind of inborn lack of athletic skill. That's not what racing is about.

No, quello che mi fa incazzare è che tanta gente non sa perdere, beh, tu non sai vincere!

The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

I'm an NBA basketball coach. I'm not an official, and I'm not trying to be an official.