Quotes About Sportsmanship

Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do – play it right and with respect.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

When asked the inevitable question of "Does the ball ever talk back?" Mark answered, "The only time that happens is when it's going over the fence, it yells back to me that I shouldn't have thrown that pitch.

I remember one time I asked Pete Rose, I was on first base, I said, "Pete why did you..." -- he fouled off about fifteen, and I could tell that he wasn't even trying to put them in play. He said he called it "sending the fans souvenirs" because he didn't like the guy on the mound.

It's all good, man. It's part of the game. I like battle. That's what makes the game fun. You hope that it doesn't turn into physical battle, but at some point in time ...

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

Mutual respect is a sacred value for all fencers, at every level.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

They only tackle you when you've got the ball.

When Peter made mistakes, Wendy cheered for him anyway. One afternoon he beat her and everyone else in a race organized by Slightly. She only laughed and squeezed his wrist with easy affection and told him how fast he was. She was so undeterred by losing that it made the boys wonder if winning was exactly what they'd thought it was or if in England it was different.

If a sportsman true you'd be Listen carefully to me; Never, never let your gun Pointed be at anyone; That it might unloaded be Matters not the least to me. You may hit or you may miss, But at all times think of this: All the game birds ever bred Won't pay for one man dead. Forty