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Quotes About Sportsmanship

Even on one leg, I thought I could knock Tony Bellew out. I was gutted when Shane McGuigan threw the towel in.
~ David Haye
There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball's on when you're about to play your shot.
~ Neil Robertson
League of Legends' players are so toxic. I can't imagine being on a team in the NBA where they were as toxic as they are in 'League of Legends.'
~ Gordon Hayward
I am quite a calm player. I do have a go at players and refs in the heat of the moment, but I never throw my toys out of the pram.
~ Harry Kane
I think if you show respect on the track to each other, and you do clean overtaking moves, then they get respect for you.
~ Max Verstappen
What we do is just race hard on the track every week. That's the way I'd like it to be documented, and if we watch the tape, we'll see that the No. 48 swerved into us first and I know that, before even watching the tape.
~ Kurt Busch
In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.
~ Heikki Kovalainen
I have never played cricket for selfish reasons like scoring 800-900 runs on flat tracks to make a comeback.
~ Gautam Gambhir
Sports brings community together.
~ Rajashree Choudhury
I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
~ Leo Durocher
I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and say, "Well, that's golf".
~ Simon Hobday
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
~ Neville Cardus
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
~ Branch Rickey
Clubs know they cannot operate without opponents, and so unlike in most businesses, the collapse of a rival is not cause for celebration.
~ Simon Kuper
Play up! play up! and play the game!
~ Sir Henry Newbolt
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
~ Alastair Campbell
I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.
~ Andruw Jones
But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'
~ Marat Safin
The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.
~ Dick Butkus
I think we have gotten through those brain dead moments on both our parts. Now we just love to race one another hard and clean.
~ Jeff Gordon
I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.
~ Robert Kennedy
The defenders make me very angry. They are kicking, or they are pinching or they say things to me that I don't like. They try to do everything to take me out of the game. I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. This is the best answer.
~ Marko Arnautovic
I think judging a shuttle is different everywhere, so there is a drift, but you have to be used to it. We can't complain, as I think it is same for all.
~ P. V. Sindhu
Everything being equal, no sickness or crashes, there's nobody who can beat Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France.
~ Eddy Merckx