Quotes About Sportsmanship

Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match.

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

It doesn't really matter who's getting the credit. We just love to be on the field and winning games.

The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.

I would never say anything bad about Texas A&M.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for lunch and try to behave in the right way.

I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.

Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don't show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always the one that the coaches wrote down automatically on the lineup card.

I've learned lots, obviously - the first thing being never to forget to be grateful. The second is not to bear grudges, because in football, luck does not exist.

If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me.

The most important thing I learned during games is to be calmer, to try to smooth over other people's or my own mistakes, and not to tackle people unnecessarily. Patience was key for me.

The one thing about working with Scott Coker - I've never heard a bad thing about Scott Coker. And that means a lot, especially in our sport.

I held so much in during the weeks prior to my fight with Ronda. I might have said or posted some things at the time that I now realize was not the right thing to do.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

Sehwag shall be remembered for his explosive and natural cricketing skills. Wish him all success on his birthday.