Quotes About Sportsmanship

did not,' said Stan. 'I never said he lied. I told him it was an unfortunate reality of the game. I told him he would sometimes face kids who made bad calls and that he shouldn't focus on his opponent but on his own game.

kept the door open long enough to holler after her, "And why can't you hit like a girl?" He stared at her retreating figure and realized that wasn't one of his finer moments.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should be praising sportsmanship and gentlemanliness and dutifulness and physical courage. He seems to have thought, and very likely he was right, that they might come in handy as revolutionary virtues.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Sergio Ramos is very good. I know him very well: great defender, great with the ball. Van Dijk is also the same: so strong, very good in the air, scores goals. Two big players.

Down the years, I have always enjoyed playing Raymond van Barneveld. There is always a frisson of excitement in the air, an edge to the contest that makes the sap rise, but it stops short of pure enmity.

If it came to a World Championship final playing Michael van Gerwen in a last-leg decider and people were booing, that would hurt.

Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.

I never wanted anybody to think that I deliberately hurt opponents. The vast majority of players are the same.

Actually, I really wanted to play against Venus because I have so much respect for both Serena and Venus.

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.

The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. —BILL BUCKNER, in a TV interview before Game 1 of the 1986 World Series

The hour of triumph is not a time to belittle your rivals. Rather, it is a time to be magnanimous.

He recalled Old Jack's words after he'd scored a century at Lord's: anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat.

On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. Don't ever throw a game with me again.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

The thing with sledging is it very rarely goes well. Usually, if I was sledging, I was struggling.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

That's why we love football: it's not about the money or about the hairstyle or the dancing. We want to see beautiful goals, great tackles, fair play, and all this stuff.

You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.

If I ever score against Spurs, I won't celebrate. Even if it's the best goal in the world, I'll keep it subdued. It's a respect thing. The fans were brilliant towards me; I'll be playing against my friends and I can't forget that.

I will always go for the submission instead of hurting my opponent.

I never expect to get submitted, but that is the game.