Quotes About Sportsmanship

Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.

In eighth grade, I was actually better in football. I played running back, wide receiver, and safety - just like Allen Iverson.

In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.

I've been catching footballs - I've been a wide receiver since I was 15 years old. And every quarterback I've had, for the most part, threw a pretty hard ball. So I'm not getting away from the calluses.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

You don't have to commit a lot of fouls, especially if you are 1-0 down. If you are 1-0 down, then don't commit 10 fouls in the next ten minutes.

I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you're performing, you tend to pull punches because you don't want to hurt anyone.

I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.

Booing - I never like it. We see it in other sports all the time, but in tennis, it's rare.

A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

If there has been any match-fixing then we need to make sure that it's erased from our sport because it's a crime in sports. We have no place for it in any sport let alone tennis.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.

I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.

At the end of the day, it's just a tennis match. It's not the end of the world.

I stand with all the athletes who believe in doing things right. The ones who win and the ones who lose while knowing they have been cheated out of their positions. There are thousands if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of those kinds of athletes out there. We have to remember them.