Quotes About Sportsmanship

If a runner is scoring the winning run in a game (because it is the last half of the last inning of the game and his run will put his team ahead), the batter in that play must also touch first base. The batter cannot give up running because he thinks his team has already won.

There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.

Even when I went to Aston Villa, it was very important that I was not in competition with Manchester United.

It is not difficult to come up with a long list of cricketers who like to have a good time - from the village green to the Test arena, it is a sociable sport.

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

Am I afraid of Madrid's violent play? No, every team plays according to their possibilities, and there's a referee who should judge.

I don't like winning in a violent way.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

A lot of people see M.M.A. as this violent cage fighting, and they don't see it as being two athletes who have put so much time and energy and focus into it.

German virtues are now about technically good players playing attacking football.

We share the USTA's vision to promote and expand the game of tennis. I have been playing the game since I was 6 years old with my dad and five brothers, so I know firsthand how it teaches life lessons: integrity, dedication, and competitiveness.

baseball should be played for the love of the game and not the almighty dollar. I

In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses from the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get in the semi-final of the racquets championship.

UCLA basketball coach John Wooden told players who scored to give a smile, wink, or nod to the player who gave them a good pass. "What if he's not looking?" asked a team member. Wooden replied, "I guarantee he'll look." Everyone values encouragement and looks for it.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Win with grace, lose with dignity!

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.

We learn a lot of life lessons in how we play this great game, and I've been fortunate enough to be involved in it at every level.

Drake took me to the limit in our ping-pong challenge.

I was always the pouty little kid whenever I lost.

I come from a long line of sportsmen.

You ask the guys in the dressing room, I am a very bad loser.