Quotes About Sportsmanship

Since I've lived in Barcelona, I've played a bit of padel, so maybe I'll become World Champion at that - joking, of course!

It's a very slippery slope when you have a world champion boxer fighting an MMA guy for the sake of money, and he can't knock him out in the first round. He has to make sure he carries him a little bit.

You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can't guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.

I've scored many goals that I've liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

At the World Cup, everyone has to face up and beat everyone.

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

Any game in the World Cup is a tough game. The atmosphere brings a lot out of both teams.

I played my first World Cup game against South Africa where I scored 97 runs before being run-out by Jonty Rhodes.

Personal vanity has no place in a World Cup.

You don't pay for winning like that - whether it's the World Cup, whether it's the Brazilian national team. Paying the price with someone's health or rushing someone's recovery, we don't do that.

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

Sometimes you'll get a player who's marking you tightly, and he'll even apologise and say, 'My coach told me to stick close to you and mark you. I know you're a great player.' But I tell him it's fine and to do what he has to do.

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.

I'm timid. But not on the court, at least, I try not to be.

If a guy hits seven contested threes, tip your hat off to him. Good game. But in most of the cases, that won't happen.

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

Before British title fights, I've played football on a Saturday before; it's silly as it is.

Whether you are fighting for the title or fighting at the bottom, you are always professional and want to win every game.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

I appreciate every batsman in the world for different reasons. If I want someone to tough it out in the middle, I'd pick Steve Waugh. If I want someone who I know is going to have the technique to survive, you want a player like Tendulkar.

Of course, stuff happens off the ball in any football match. Standing on people's toes, pinching, hair pulling, punching in the back.