Quotes About Sportsmanship

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

It was a great Olympics - Team USA finished the games with 17 more medals than China. China said it was tough to swallow - especially when they had to make all of our "We're #1" T-shirts.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.

We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.

One of my goals is to have NO wrestler go undefeated.

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.

When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

To know the game is great, to play the game is greater, but to love the game is the greatest of them all.

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.

I like playing defense, but sometimes I think it might be fun to score the goals. It would be nice to be the good guy for a change.

Everybody knows you don't hit from behind. It's the number-one rule in hockey. We even have stop signs sewn on the back of our jerseys to remind us. More kids have gotten hurt being checked from behind than anything else in hockey.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.