Quotes About Sportsmanship

It is best to keep a substitution open for the final 15 minutes, as you never know if you are going to lose someone to injury and be left with 10 men.

There's little that's subtle about Hardus Viljoen - he's a broad-chested, broad-shouldered fast bowler, who simply trundles up to the wicket and hurls it down as fast as possible.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated

There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies

A gimme can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers neither of whom can putt very well

Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

I would rather lose the game than play it. I would rather be hurt than be mean. Because I can live with myself if I'm hurt. I don't think I could live with myself if I were mean.

Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

You don't play the game to lose. But I also understand that if people are giving their 100% effort, giving it all they've got, it's going to be accepted.

I have seen that Tendulkar was not at all comfortable against Shoaib in Kolkata Test in 1999. It was Shoaib's first tour of India, and he bowled out Sachin without giving him a chance to open his account.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

It is difficult to single out any one player, as I aim to give my best against every single player that I have played so far against.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

I do believe Allen Iverson knew this, and I believe all the players know this: that certain referees treat them much better than others.

I hate losing and I think it's good to feel a stab of anger if it happens.