Quotes About Sportsmanship

This is what respect means: when you support your favourite without badmouthing his opponent. This is respect, and it's a common thing. It doesn't matter what country or city you represent.

I am actually a huge supporter of the Canadian athletes, and they are all really nice people.

I am not a big supporter of sledging or insults that are hurled at you. But I don't mind if a bowler glares or stares at the batsmen. During my career, I have faced these situations numerous times.

Supporters don't like the idea of people going to ground too easily. Everyone who has ever played football, everyone who's been involved, would hate that. You'd be saying, 'Get Up!'

I love how snowboarding is like no other sport out there - I mean, some of my best friends are my biggest competitors. And we just cheer each other on. It's a very supportive sport.

In golf, you keep trying to score well when you're ahead. In basketball, they don't quit shooting when they're ahead. In hockey, they don't quit shooting the puck when they're ahead. And in boxing, you don't quit punching when you're ahead. But in football, somehow magically, you're supposed to quit playing when you're ahead.

You've got to go out there and play the game the way it's supposed to be played. Then you get people to like you and appreciate your work by just going out there and competing every down. Jerry Rice was looked at in that perspective. He went out there and was a hard-working guy. He was going to give it his all.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

If I lose a match, I don't get sad or feel down. But if I lose a close match, I surely have sleepless nights.

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.