Quotes About Sportsmanship

You need to go out to the game and just understand you need to beat your opponent. With all of the respect, because you need to have respect for your opponent, but you need to beat them. If you don't beat them, they will beat you.

If I can't defend my opponent and if he scores as much I'm scoring then he won the matchup.

I can say that in our gym, 'Toquinho' has never hurt anyone. He is a good person, excellent company and a man with a great character. I believe that he has never thought of doing anything evil to any opponent because this isn't his conduct.

To be respectful to opponents is to play hard against them.

Even after defeating India, I still have the highest respect for them as opponents.

I think it's normal that, the first time you meet Federer or Murray or Djokovic, you're going to get nervous. But after a while, they become normal opponents, people you see every week. That's the way you have to think. You can't think of them as legends. When you see someone on court, you have to treat every opponent the same way.

If I play at cards, I want to win and, coming into the games, I want to win, always, with the best result, with the respect to our opponents.

I don't like to disrespect people or my opponents. Anything can happen.

I focus on my opponents the same way whether they are a champion or not.

I don't want advantages for my team. I want the same rest as our opponents. It's very difficult to do this? I don't think so.

We will respect all our opponents, as we always do.

I think if you are champ, you shouldn't choose your opponents.

A backheel is good if it works, not if it disrespects the opponents.

It's business inside the ring, but outside it, it's friendship and brotherhood. I try to do that with all my opponents.

Most opponents aren't Ronaldo! You have to show him respect but not too much, because that's when you get taken advantage of.

It's a challenge, but every single German or Canadian I want to beat, I still have to love them. That means competing the way God wants me to compete and helping my opponents if they have a need.

I don't care if my opponents are cheating or not.

I don't bash my company. I don't bash my opponents. I don't miss weight.

I don't have any ill will towards any of my opponents. I understand we are the highest calibre of athlete in this sport, and we will both go and give it our all. But I don't want anyone to misinterpret what I am saying: when we step into that octagon and we touch gloves, I am going to break his face.

I respect all my opponents.

A good match is about the chemistry between opponents.

We have to respect the opponents.

I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.

We respect all our opponents.