Quotes About Sportsmanship

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

Camaraderie builds. We travelled together to Rome, Paris, Wimbledon, the U.S., lots of places. In a way, I miss it right now. My opponents were also my best friends.

Beating Roger Federer is a match I will remember for years to come. All my respect to him. Federer is arguably the greatest player to have ever played our sport, so beating him at Wimbledon was really special.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

It's what you work for and grind for. Just to get out there and play the game and try to help your team to win. And in doing that, you just help yourself.

You win some and lose some. It's all part of the game. You have to take it in a very positive way.

If you are a referee, it's not easy because everyone wants to win, and so there will be cheating.

I don't believe in praying to win.

I'll do whatever it takes for us to win games of cricket. If I have to sledge, I'll get involved like that. I'll try and intimidate a player if I have to.

I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.

Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

I'm not a nice guy on the field, and I've never really respected a guy who's been a 'nice guy' on the field. I want opposition to be hard, to play to win the game for their team.

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Nobody likes to lose. I'm not going to be happy and excited about that, but I'm still going to be me because I know from the bottom of my heart there's going to be a next game; maybe try to win the next game.

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

When there's too many teams that are not trying to win, that poisons the game, poisons the fan experience, and it creates bandwagon fans.

Play tough Australian cricket. Whether we like it or not, that's in our blood. If you try and walk away from it, we might be the most liked team in the world, we're not going to win. We won't win a game.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

In football, you can win or lose. We always have to be together, with the same spirit we've always had.

We're gracious and we're humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.

When games are close together you have to draw a line under the first match whether you win or lose, and then start again for the next one.

Steve Nash, Grant Hill, they were always preaching whether you win or lose. You have to keep an even keel, keep a level head.