Quotes About Sportsmanship

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.

Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history.

My dad (Ken Griffey) would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.

We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.

I hope his breath wasn't too bad for 'Bron.'

The Indian team does not need any best wishes - they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav Ganguly, and I hope he does well in the World Cup.

My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.