Quotes About Sportsmanship

Eleven years in the league, I haven't had a dirty play. I haven't made a name in this league by playing that way.

We all know what my game is, to play hard. Not dirty, but play hard.

I have been in many battles with great players, and not once have I ever tried to do anything dirty as far as taking a player out of a game.

I'm not a dirty player. I love this game, and I'm playing hard.

I've never had dirty teams.

I think sometimes people don't understand the difference between being competitive and being dirty.

I'm not a dirty fighter.

I am disappointed when I lose and don't play well, for example. But it is not so disappointing to lose when you play good. And I never feel I want to put the racquet down and walk away because of losing.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.

The best-player argument shouldn't be determined by personal dislike.

I don't have any disparaging words about WWE.

I give everybody respect. There's nobody in the NBA who I disrespect because on any given night, you're liable to get lit up.

I don't like 7-footers shooting threes, it's a disrespect to the game for me.

Me personally, I can take getting beat, if it's about basketball. But when it gets to the point where you're being personal, and being disrespectful as a man to another man, that's when I have a problem.

Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

No one has to talk disrespectful to anybody. We're just here to run.

I think the term tanking, I think it's disrespectful to the game. I really do. I don't like that term. I don't like when people use it.

I don't want to be a diva champion.

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

If there's a loose ball, I'm going to dive and see if I can get it. That's just the way you play.

You'll find that I've watched around 400 games at age-group level, from six to 14 years old, over the last eight years because both my sons play for academy teams - and I have not seen a single dive.

I'm not a diver. I know that.

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.