Quotes About Sportsmanship

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Let's play two

In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.

I love making friends and make others happy. But I also love to be happy all the time. All that aggression that you see remains on the court only.

You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

I want to be remembered as a guy who played the game of football right.

That's what I think most players want to be remembered as, being a good competitor. Not being a guy who makes excuses. There are a lot of guys who make an excuse before the game why they're not going to win. And those guys are losers.

I have to remind Arsene about his team, which used to win the league, that was the dirtiest team in the league. If you cast your mind back to when they were winning the league, they had more seedings-off and bookings than anyone else.

A rematch is one of those things that will always be there when you remove a champion, and it's something you definitely need to give them - that chance for a rematch. That's the only way to do it.

During my playing days, when I used to see the repeat telecast of my matches, I used to feel bad on hearing criticism of my game by the commentators.

I've said this before, but I need to repeat it again: Nothing impresses me more than when MMA fighters handle a particularly tough defeat with grace and class.

We have a long heritage as a company of serving responsible hunters and sportsmen and women, and we're going to continue doing so.

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.

When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we've had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.

I'm hyped up by true competitors, I'm hyped up by real athletes and sportsmen.