Quotes About Sportsmanship

It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked.

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.

I've had loads of kicks over the years, and I'm not really too fussed about them. I get kicked, and I don't like to roll around or anything. I like to get back up pretty quickly, even if it hurt.

Ronaldinho takes great free kicks and has scored a lot of nice goals from free play.

I try and play as clean as possible and not commit fouls. But in my position it is not easy to play without giving away free kicks.

Durant, man! Has that killer instinct.

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

I don't try to knock out people.

I'm not out to knock anybody out, even though knockouts are cool.

I don't go into a situation trying to knock somebody over. It's just the way I play: physical.

I'd knock people over and bruise their pride, but I never went out to hurt people. That is not acceptable, and I don't want to see it in my team.

It's all you hear on a cricket field - 'Knock his head off, knock his head off.' Cricket has gone too far. It shouldn't be posturing, abusing.

Not only did I not like officiating his games, I was afraid at times he was going to knock my block off... there was nothing you could do to get the guy on your side... with saying that, I've talked to Rasheed Wallace in the last couple of years and he's nothing but a complete gentleman off the floor.

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

Robert Whittaker hasn't been that impressive. He got knocked out by choir boy Stephen Thompson.

I've knocked out a lot of people so I'm not going to cry about being stopped, it's part of the game and I can accept that.

When I first fought in K-1, I knocked out a guy in two minutes.

When you lose badly, when you get knocked out and the ref has to stop it, that's when you know it's been a bad fight. But when you lose a fight having over the 12 rounds and you don't look like you've done any rounds, that's when you know it's quite good.

It's never nice to lose 3-0 and have the ball knocked round you a bit towards the end.

It knocks the rust off, going against a guy like Kevin Love.

I think the big thing with O.J. - I've known him since he was in high school - and he's a great kid, loves the game of basketball.

I'm not going to let Kobe throw elbows at me.

I've always had a very cordial relationship with Kobe.