Quotes About Sportsmanship

One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.

You can't really win without serving and passing, you got to hit the ball in the court.

I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

The integrity of the game is everything.

Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great who won more championship rings as a player than anyone else (eleven), revealed in his memoir, Second Wind, that he sometimes secretly rooted for the opposing team during big games because if they were doing well, it meant he would have a more heightened experience.

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they'd prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they'd always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian.

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

Shot selection is very important because you don't want to lose wickets at the start and put pressure on the rest of the side.

You definitely have to have a sense of humor. It's not always serious when it comes to basketball.

I got sent off a few times in my life, but I never lost my head. I mistimed tackles, and I made mistakes.

It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

In high school, I think I served almost an entire match by myself.

I'm known for setting good screens.

You should not shirk from tough tackles during a training session, but after that you shake hands.

If there's a problem and you want to do something after then we'll go and talk about it after, but for me you shake hands at the end of the game and get on with it.

I played my heart out for the Bruins every shift, and that's all you can ask for.

Kyle Korver, to me, is a shooter. JJ Redick is a shooter.

I've never been a guy that's been salty about the shots I'm getting. I just try to play the right way.

What I'm trying to do is play the game the right way, not force shots up. Whenever I have my opportunities, take 'em.

I don't care about my shots or my points or my assists. It's about playing the right way, trying to get everybody involved.

My favorite player I ever played was Reggie White. He played so ferociously. What I loved about playing against him was the millisecond you went down, he became your friend and would ask, 'How's your family?' In a way that could feel weird and awkward.