Sportsmanship famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.
-- Allen Iverson -
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
-- Andrew Young -
Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.
-- Babe Ruth -
If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.
-- Bob Ley -
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
-- Chili Davis -
She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's improved her sportsmanship, her demeanor on the field. She's still working on leadership and that's improving.
-- Elaine Jones -
We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.
-- Eric Hyman -
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.
-- Francis Ouimet -
If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.
-- Glenn Dobbs -
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
-- Jack Nicklaus -
Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
-- John McGraw -
I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
-- John Wooden -
Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.
-- Kevin Wall -
It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.
-- Major Taylor -
When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.
-- Mary Ellen Clark -
Sportsmanship...what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church!
-- Stone Cold Steve Austin -
That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.
-- Tristan Blackwood -
I was pleased with both games. Our sportsmanship was outstanding.
-- Wade Clark Mackey -
Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.
-- Warren Moon -
When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies.
-- Danny Ainge -
Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.
-- Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy -
Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration
-- Roger Staubach
