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Quotes About Ethics

Surround our children with a message of honor
~ Michael Josephson
Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.
~ Rachel Maddow
When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made
~ Mark Webber
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
~ Mason Cooley
I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
~ Mick Jagger
I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face
~ Rafael Palmeiro
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
~ Roland Barthes
I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Morality is not a spectator sport.
~ Thomas Lickona
I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.
~ Tommy Hilfiger
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
~ Woody Allen
It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~ Mark Twain
Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.
~ Chris Matakas
He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.
~ Anonymous
I'm not playing with my brother-in-law today. Would you play with a man who improves his lie and cheats on his score? Well neither would he!
~ Anonymous
Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.
~ Alex Morgan
There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.
~ Stephen Rodrick
Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
~ Democritus
Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it
~ Zhuangzi
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
~ C. S. Lewis
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.
~ Mark Haddon
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
~ Blaise Pascal