Quotes About Sportsmanship

Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.

I once started tennis lessons and turned some poor man grey overnight. Now I feign injuries when I'm asked for a game.

If they're going to take away a portion of maintaining the ball, there needs to be that even contest between bat and ball, otherwise people are going to stop watching and kids aren't going to want to be bowlers.

Part of my game is about winning those fouls and getting in good positions.

I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.

We've changed a lot of things to help certain groups of people. We widened the lane from 6 feet to 12 feet to 16 feet to make it so the big guys aren't as dominant. Well, why didn't we just say, 'You've got to learn to play against them in the post?'

You can't just think up a move in your head and go, 'Okay, I'll just pick somebody up, and I'm just going to throw them backwards into the post.' You have to think, 'Would you want someone to do the same thing to you?'

I would gladly give up my driver if it's not conforming. But there's still 130 other players in the field that potentially have a nonconforming driver, as well.

I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

I don't know if I like getting hit, but I try to draw contact.

I don't think about drawing the contact on purpose. I just want to get to the line.

You see teams buy a lot of batsmen for a lot of money because they are good batsmen. But you also need good bowlers to get them out or contain the runs.

That contest between bat and ball, we don't want to lose that or get further away from that even contest.

I don't want to get into a Buddy Ryan-bashing contest. I respect Buddy Ryan.

I've always been one to want a fair contest between bat and ball even as a batter, so if that's taken away I don't think that's great.

No one seems to want to do anything about diving in the game apart from me. I'm still amazed by it. Kids everywhere are watching, all copying it. No one seems to care about it.

Most kickers and punters and snappers are pretty cordial with each other throughout the year.

I appreciate when a guy goes out there and makes a great play or runs the bases correctly.

Sometimes things go wrong in 'football. You can lose games, own-goals, you can buy the wrong players. But you do it in the right spirit and you do it honestly. That is not how it went wrong at Notts County.

We can all play on the court and share the courts with the girls.

I don't usually talk crap about guys.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

I don't think there is a need to treat matches with India like a matter of life and death. We need to take cricket as cricket.