Quotes About Sportsmanship

Lewandowski is a great player.

I always show great respect for everyone, including Manchester United.

Virat Kohli is someone I have great respect for.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

Al Horford is a very good player; a great team player.

One of the great things about a celebrity pro-am is that you get to play along with the very best professional golfers in the world.

Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.

Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'

In competition, you see people who win and lose, and you have to learn how to lose gracefully. You have to be able to come back in the day and compete again, not hold a grudge, and put everything into the next fight.

Little Slater Martin, I think, was one of the best point guards ever, and we had Whitey Skoog, a great shooter, at the other guard.

I used to enjoy back-picking big guys all the time.

I talk bad about Uriah Hall all the time but I don't dislike the guy.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

It's never over until we're shaking hands at the net. Then you've either won or you've lost, and - either way - you look them in the eye and say, 'Well played, mate.'

In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

The team I used to play for as a kid, we changed goalkeeper every game. Finally I went in goal and we won - and they made me stay there.

I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

I won the Daytona 500. I won these races twice. I knew I didn't need anything cheating on my part.

More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he's playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking 'oh my God, I'm going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that's going to be painful.'

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

It's important to get under your opponent's skin and let them know that you are coming for them out in the middle. When you do that, half the battle's won!

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.