Quotes About Sportsmanship

You always need to have the highest respect for your opponents. If you see them fighting, you know you have to give something extra.

When I go into the ring, I don't hate opponents, and I certainly don't want to hurt them.

Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.

We've got to make our opponents earn everything they get.

We always have respect for our opponents, but we will try to enforce our own game.

Going up against a great champion like Cavani, giving each other hell for 90 minutes, then being able to walk off as opponents who respect one another is the beauty of sport.

We have to be humble and respect our opponents who are stronger than us.

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

I respect all my opponents and they do the same thing that I do to get ready for fights.

When have I ever bad-mouthed any of my opponents? I never have. That's not my style.

For us it's better to think of our opponents as idiots. It's easier to play hard against someone you don't like than it is to play against a friend.

You gain respect in your opponents' minds when you win a lot of matches.

I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed.

I'm all for a great fan environment to cheer us if we're home and boo us if we're the opposing team. But some fans are over the line with the stuff they say, the stuff they do.

We always want to play and be dominant with the ball, but we respect the opposition.

Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.

You try to make sure you have respect for the opposition but still play to win and play hard cricket.

In 50over cricket there are different ways of playing. It's not all about smacking it over the top. It's important someone bats through the innings. That would be one of the options for me.

Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.

Obviously the policies put forward by the IOC and other organizations are evolving and perhaps they may change after I have competed. But I would ask people to keep an open mind and perhaps look to the fact that I didn't win, as evidence that any advantage I may hold is not as great as they may think.

When the Olympics comes around, it seems like every country is against each other, but we're all buddies out here. It's about giving feedback to fellow riders and letting the riders feed off each other.

The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

I hate missing practice and games, not being out here.

We had a court, and my brothers would play outdoors, with rims barely hanging in there.