Quotes About Sportsmanship

Ryder Cup is an interesting thing.

Every player needs to be aware of the levels of fitness needed to play international cricket.

September 3rd, 2017, the Italian Grand Prix on the F1 Ferrari team radio, Alonso asked: "Where's Palmer?" "Retired" the team reply "Karma" said Alonso

You know what's driving *me* crazy? You, not getting the ball in the hole.

It's a great day for hockey.

Every once in a while, tempers would flare, but we figured out how to settle those disputes as well—after all, there was no referee to decide the outcome. You would stand up for yourself on some occasions if you had to. One way or another, every kid who laces up a pair of skates in a shinny game learns that backing down almost never helps. But it also doesn't take long to figure out that if you play by the spirit of the rules, there is usually not much trouble.

Call me old-fashioned, but when I was growing up, and especially playing sports, we learned that you don't throw someone under the bus. Mind you, I have no problem sharing the truth when it comes to a particular topic or event, as you are about to see. But telling the truth and piling on are two different things entirely.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

Nothing brings a warm smile to my face and does my heart more good than when a club player or pro walks up to me at a tournament

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Somehow my father and golf were able to convey life lessons to me—patience, failure, humility, dedication, sportsmanship, practice, small improvements, missteps, mental error, fate, doing everything right and still not getting the desired result—without words. You may love the game, but as in life, no one—no one—gets out unscathed.

During the pregame warm-up—the part where you skate in a circle and stretch—Mo had elbowed him and nodded toward where Tia sat and said, "Nice sweater puppies." That

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?'

Obviously, I'm going to go out there and want to win. Don't get me wrong. But I'm not going to not have fun or not enjoy myself at the same time.

There are many penalties which referees don't see. Sometimes they are right, and many other times, they are wrong. That is football.

I know why I lose fights. If you don't know why you lost a fight or won a fight, you shouldn't be fighting. I know when I do right when I win, and I know what I do wrong when I lose.

Some people may say wrong decisions belong in football, but if a final is decided in the 90th minute by a wrong decision, for me that is not a fair result.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

We have the utmost respect for any team we play, football is a game where there is no right or wrong way of playing.

We play the right way at the Spurs. We don't go about business the wrong way, we play hard and represent the Spurs the best way we can.

If I wanted to do a fixed fight, I'd be doing WWE.

The heart of the sport is about the top guys fighting each other. This isn't WWE; this is fighting.

I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.