Quotes About Sportsmanship

As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

Anger doesn't win games.

I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

I was never an athletic kid. One year I played Little League baseball, and my dad was the coach. Halfway through the season he traded me to another family.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

He was ever conscious of his obligation to play well. Late in his career, when his legs were bothering him and the Yankees had a comfortable lead in a pennant race, a friend of his, columnist Jimmy Cannon, asked him why he played so hard—the games, after all, no longer meant so much. "Because there might be somebody out there who's never seen me play before," he answered.

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

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

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

It's all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don't hurt anybody. Feel good about what you're doing and how you're doing it.

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

All the world loves a good loser.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Never concede the putt that beats you.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.