Quotes About Sportsmanship

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

Bunny, you've had your wind bagged at footer, I daresay; you know what that's like?

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 goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

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 give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating.

Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it.

Sportsmen do not need Bollywood or film industry; they do not need publicity: it could be the other way round.

I'm not going to get into complaining publicly about fouls. Just not going to do that.

Tremendous respect to hockey players. It's not easy every day, going out and getting hit, especially the goalies with all that padding on, that small puck, trying to track it - hand-eye co-ordination is a must. They're some amazing athletes.

I hate when a batsman plays a pull shot off my bowling.

If you think you're higher than UFC, if you think you're better than all the other fighters, then maybe you should get pulled.

I'm a football fan in general. I'm always pulling for a good game.

I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay.

Scoring two goals to win a game will hurt an opponent more than a punch in the face.

I always give Calzaghe credit. He was a great fighter, really tough, unbeaten in 46 fights. He's never, ever given me any props at all. And for that I'd love to punch him in the face really hard.

I now know in myself not to punch lockers.

I don't think you should punish a guy for losing when they were hurt.

Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.

One thing I do get aggravated by is people shouting with frustration if they get pushed and shoved in sprints. I don't push and shove anyone, but I don't care if somebody does it to me.

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.