Quotes About Sportsmanship

If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.

F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.

Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

Whitaker ran... he made a lot of fouls.

Everybody who comes to my home has to play at least one set against me. I beat them all. The best thing is when they want another set. People like me who can't stand not to win. I beat them again and again until they are furious, then I laugh. That's funny.

There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.

I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

We are football players and we like to win games.

Strikeouts are important. Anytime you can generate an out without the ball being put in play, there's nothing that can be done in those situations.

Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman's sport.

Sangakkara was a force and an absolute gentleman of the game.

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman's sport.

The men I've played are all respectful and gentlemen towards me. I've never really had a problem. In the past a lot of people would go: 'We're playing a woman.' But now they're thinking: 'We're playing a good player.'

I played on a line with Theo Fleury and German Titov, and I was actually center on their line.

What happened between me and Vitali, and Haye and Wladimir made the Klitschkos stars in Germany.

It would be fantastic to play against Germany and Brazil.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

I won the glare with the bowler every time, because I knew that at some time he was going to have to turn around and go back to his mark.

When I was playing, wearing glasses was second nature to me. It was an accepted part of life.

There's no rule that states you must touch gloves before a fight.

I'm not a competitive player at all, but I don't want competitive games to go away, because for some people that's why they play games, to compete.