Quotes About Sportsmanship

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

There should be no tolerance for cheaters, especially in fighting.

Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.

All the negatives, the flags for the personal fouls and silly stuff after the play, that takes a toll. People don't want to be a part of that.

694.The quickest red card ever given out in soccer history was just three seconds into the match, when player Lee Todd, who played for Chippenham in the U.K., exclaimed, "Eff me, that was loud," after the starting whistle was blown.

As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't.

I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.

God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!

You've got to be a little nasty out there. But most of the time, I'm having fun.

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

We just have to go out there and play and take one game at a time. We have to know everybody will play the best game they can.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Lo principal era tratar de no dejar nunca mal parado a un adversario, ashanti, fanti, mexicano o lo que fuere.

Who ever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Whoever said 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts' probably lost.

Michael Jordan always had to wear University of North Carolina boxer shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform.