Quotes About Sportsmanship

When you're playing against a team like India you're always going to struggle, especially as they bat all the way down the order to No. 9 and 10.

Cricket is a team game. If you want fame for yourself, go play an individual game.

Of course, I want to play every game but you have to accept rotations and understand that other players are in good form. Football's a team game.

There's times where I could take all the shots every time I touch the ball, but that's not me. I just play a team game and just take open shots.

I'm not really into individual awards, especially in a team game like this.

I always think this is a team sport.

I see football as a team sport, I'm not looking for the spotlight.

Football is a team sport and I'd rather place the team above my personal desires.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

I'm a team player. I've, you know, played team sports my whole life, at least as a kid. And I believe that you have to subordinate yourself to the greater good of the team.

You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.

Any day of the week you'd rather your team win rather than have personal achievements.

For me, the best defender I played against was Carles Puyol. He was my teammate, too, but my rival many times. Also, Roberto Ayala, the Argentinian centerback.

Yuzvendra Chahal, India's leg-spinner, is another IPL teammate. He's also a great guy and very funny.

I love the Capitals and my teammates here as much as I love my country and I know all the other NHL players feel the same for their teams.

It is healthy to have competition and intense competition, and then, when you walk away from it, you are still teammates, and you play the same position and that we can still put the team first.

Often, I allow teammates to take my penalties so they can have goals, but no one talks of that.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership.

I wasn't a guy who looked to score first. It was to get your teammates involved, to understand time and clock management and having fun with your teammates.

I play to have fun. I play to win. I play for my teammates.

People asking my teammates, 'Is Arrieta a guy who'd try to cheat the system?' Honestly, hearing that kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.

If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can't just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose.