Quotes About Sportsmanship

The teams that compete at the highest level love the thrill of the contest. They may have winning in their heads, but they have a love for the effort and struggle in their hearts.

winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never letting anyone down is the point. Play to win. Sure. But lose like a champion. Because it's not winning that counts. What counts is trying.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

They might have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century. [Replying to Kenneth Clarke, who said, "Isn't it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport?" when England lost to Germany in the 1990 FIFA World Cup Semi-final.]

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

Steroids is cheating, and winning without honor is not winning.

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

You dont like to see hookers going down on players like that.

It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling

It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.

McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.