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Quotes About Sportsmanship

Neuer is by far the best keeper I've played with and is also outstanding outfield.
~ Xabi Alonso
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
~ Warren Moon
I'm a firm believer that individual accolades are a bit overrated in this game.
~ Travis Kelce
If anyone has to overtake me, I'm glad that it is Messi.
~ Ronald Koeman
Losing in overtime is not much fun.
~ Carey Price
They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.
~ Tommy Bolt
Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.
~ Tommy Bolt
A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.
~ Tony Lema
When you win, say nothing, when you lose say less.
~ Paul Brown
I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.
~ Helio Gracie
A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.
~ Unknown
Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him.
~ Shigeru Egami
It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts
~ Nick Faldo
game against Italy, Suárez could clearly be seen on video robbing
~ Dave Barry
Afterwards they walked over to the gym. Mace got a ball and took Ty onto the court while Alisha watched. Mace bounced the ball between her legs, turned, and shot. The ball swished through the hoop, barely grazing the net
~ David Baldacci
crap out of him," said Dusty Olson, Proctor's star jock when he and Scott were teenagers. During cross-country runs, Dusty and his buddies would pelt Scott with mud and take off. "He could never catch up," Dusty said. "No one could understand why he was so slow, because
~ Christopher McDougall
Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, every other teams were delighted.
~ Christopher McDougall
Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, even other teams were delighted.
~ Christopher McDougall
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
~ Chuck Tanner
Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context—randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out "I swear to God!" is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship.
~ Claudia Rankine
Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context—randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out "I swear to God!" is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship. Two
~ Claudia Rankine
Fair play is always expected in any game. Any job you work in is a game too.
~ Unknown
Sport is a preserver of health.
~ Hippocrates
it was as important to be a good winner as a good loser. I wanted Oak to give me an opportunity to be a good winner.
~ Holly Black