Quotes About Sportsmanship

Chris Byrd is a good fighter, but I put him to sleep in five, seven rounds.

I like most of the guys in the sport. They're my friends. We're not going to mistreat the fighters. I wouldn't mistreat a friend and so I won't mistreat my fighters.

When it comes to fighting and other fighters, I try to be respectful.

In the fight, we are fighters, but after, we have respect for each other.

I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.

At the end of the day, us fighters, all we have is respect.

This is boxing, everybody fights everybody.

You might cry during a game if you lose a final. That's all part of football.

You can make kids and fans happy without calling them on the court in the last three minutes of the NBA Finals.

This is football: one day you win, one day you lose, and there's a very fine line between them.

Well, I think baseball should be fun, but there's always a line. There's a fine line with everything. Where's the line between making it fun and making it disrespectful.

You've really got to, first of all, love the game, you got to love the competition, you got to love to compete.

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don't we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don't understand why there's any rules.

My lone concussion occurred in 2003 against Denver. I was spinning off block and right when I spun, I hit Clinton Portis with my head turned sideways. I hit him and I hit the ground. That was first big one where I was like 'Whoa.' Back then, it was no big deal.

I play my best when I'm enjoying myself. So whoever I play against, I try to have fun.

I can't control what the other team's gonna feel. I'm just gonna go out there and hoop, and whoever takes it to heart and takes their losses salty, I can't do anything about that.

It's nice to know that whoever I walk out on court against, I feel comfortable.

It's going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him - he'll be a great batsman or bowler.

Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I'm a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.

I hope wholeheartedly that badminton will be as popular and respected as tennis one day.

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.