Quotes About Sportsmanship

No, I'm not a bad loser.

People always say I'm a bad loser.

The better team sometimes loses.

We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.

I've always maintained that winning and losing will be part of the sport.

I don't think it is wrong to have a bit of banter with refs. My Dad would always manage games by talking to players and so did I when I reffed.

I'd love to take a shot at getting one over on Manchester United. I love the team. I love the game. I love when I get to go to Old Trafford and watch them do their thing. The whole organization takes itself very, very seriously though. They could use a little lightening up.

I remember playing against the great Manchester United teams when I was a player.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

goalposts, tore chunks of the field as souvenirs, and surrounded our team in their mud- and grass-stained

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Yell. Heckle. Do anything you want. We came here to play baseball.

He's [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off.

Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

It's like football. Two sides may each want to beat the other, they may even hate each other as sides, but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about, then they'd feel together. It's feeling that matters.

And never fall into that statistical macho trap that's so prevalent in fly-fishing these days. If you keep score, you can be beaten, but if you refuse to compete you can leave the impression that you have long since risen above that kind of crap. When someone says to you, "I caught forty-eight trout and ten of them were twenty inches or better. How'd you do?" say, "Yeah, we got some. Couple nice ones, too.

After a leisurely slide into second, Joe bounced to his feet, looked at Marichal, shrugged, smiled, and spread his arms as if to say, You throw at me, I'll make you pay.

With four minutes to go and South Sudan up by one, Benjie Boone bounced off a screen at the top of the key and pulled up wide open from 25 feet.

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.