Quotes About Sportsmanship

I am feeling very well so long as I am out there on the pitch with my team-mates.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

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.

As a catcher, I know the pitcher is trying to get ahead in the count.

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense here - an insult to the pitcher, the opposing team and all that's sacred in America's pastime.

Sometimes pitchers' duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.

My dad was probably the first to tell me - I remember pitching when I was 7 or 8, and he told me he didn't want the other team to know whether I was having a great game or a bad game. And that's something that always stuck with me.

If the batsman is playing good shots, you accept it, but it is important that we bowl according to what the plan is and not go off it.

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.

I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is... Look, we play 162 games. It's a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.

Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.

I play basketball hard-nosed and if you're not on my team, during that 48 minutes we're enemies.

I'm not trying to be dirty. I'm out there to play basketball and not fight. But if it comes to the situation, one thing, know this, I'm never going to back down from anybody.

When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

One thing I really liked about David Winfield, man, just... the way he played the game, and such a class act he was on and off the field.

I have played incredible knocks with the lightest of bats.

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

Whether a player has played one match or a hundred, we should give him respect for what he has achieved and leave it at that.

In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.