Quotes About Sportsmanship

Win or lose, when I outclassed Dominick Cruz, I gave him my respect.

Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.

If it takes me 300 balls to get a 100, then it'll take me 300 balls. That'll also tire the bowlers quite a bit too, so it's a bit of a win-win if that's the case.

Muhammad Ali was the one who started it, winding up his opponents, but he always did it with a twinkle in his eye and a bit of class about him. Mayweather is just insulting from start to finish.

Wilder is like a windmill, he's rubbish, he's one of the worst boxers going.

A NASCAR guy can drop-kick another driver through his car window and it is just considered part of the sport. Hockey players drop their sticks and pound on one another on a regular basis and no one dares blame it on anything other than just a boiling, competitive spirit.

At the end of the day it's better to be an unpleasant winner than a nice loser.

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

I'm a bad loser, but I'm not a good winner either - I like to rub it in people's faces!

I don't think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There's only going to be one winner there.

The whole thing about F1 that the bad boy is the winner is wrong.

If its proven that there's racial abuse, the team's fans where there's abuse should quit the game as a loss and the result should go to the winner basically.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

Yes, dodgeball encourages competitiveness. Yes, the stronger, more athletic kids are going to be more successful at it than the weaker ones, but what game doesn't have winners and losers?

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord's.