Quotes About Sportsmanship

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out about this new weapon,' he said. 'Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?

Boxers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank would not have missed their rivalry for all the world, and I don't mind a bit of needle in darts if it helps to pay the bills.

Whatever it is, when I was playing with my friends, my brother, with my neighbours, I never wanted to lose.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

If I'm in a good position to score then I'm happy to put the ball in the back of the net, but if I'm not, and I see someone in a better position, I'll give it to him.

I get that you have to go to the net and score goals, but if you're going to run over the goalie there should be some type of consequence.

I never complain when I foul, ever.

I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.

I never take fights personal and I'm not emotional when I'm fighting.

I have a lot of respect for New England.

In Korea, if a player makes a mistake, the other players don't like to point it out. Rather, they try to embrace it; they take the attitude, 'Let's do better next time.' But in the West, if you do something wrong, another player will make a point of saying something, and you will have to fix it immediately.

I've always been a nice guy, but let's face it football's a mean game.

I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter. I think he's a nice guy just like everybody else, and he's a great role model. I would love to be that too if I was in that position.

I respect Demetrious Johnson. I respect him as a human being. He always acts like a professional, he's a nice guy, but that still doesn't mean that I can't say that he's scared to fight me.

I like Vitor Belfort. He's a nice guy and I have nothing against him.

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.

There is no doubt that Nathan Lyon is a great spinner but so were Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan and Graeme Swann.

Yuvraj is a better batsman than me, I have no doubt.

Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

At no point in any sport do you want to be known as a cheater.

You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem.