One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. — Knute Rockne
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way. — Jim Courier
Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect. — Tommy Hilfiger
Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities. — Fielding H. Yost
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. — George Will
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. — Ian Botham
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it. — Mia Hamm
It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other. — Jordan Spieth
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. — Roger Bannister
Short Good Sport Quotes
You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser. — Joe Namath
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight. — Jurgen Klopp
I'm a huge sports fan. — Marc Anthony
Sports is human life in microcosm. — Howard Cosell
Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. — Jimmy Buffett
Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice. — Lou Campanelli
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day. — Paul Walker
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
Top 10 Good Sport Quotes
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket. — Gino Bartali
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne
When you see a good move, look for a better one. — Emanuel Lasker
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. — Oscar Wilde
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. — Bobby Orr
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
It’s not a very big sport in the U.S. if you compare it to American football and baseball and the other — Ingemar Stenmark
We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass. — Brian Clough
Good Sport Image Quotes
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Being A Good Sport Quotes
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls. — Haven Kimmel
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities. — John Wooden
If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at. — Cheryl Cole
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it. — Harry Vardon
Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication. — P. K. Subban
I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years. — Sayings
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter. — Dot Richardson
If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions. — Nevil Shute
Is a BJ adultery? What? Did I miss a day of school? Of course it is! Oral sex is adultery like Curling is an Olympic sport. The only thing is, oral sex should be in the Olympics because it's much harder than Curling, and if you're good at it, you DESERVE a medal! — Lewis Black
The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach — Franz Stampfl
Really Good Sport Quotes
You always think as an organization, obviously if you're in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don't really realize how good ESPN is and how big their platform really is until you're in it. — Dana White
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions. — Sunil Gavaskar
I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life. — Willie Mays
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport. — Cristie Kerr
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. — Fran Drescher
I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning. — Gregg Troy
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do. — Stefan Edberg
Triathlon is a very friendly sport. You can make friends quite easily. You don't have to be the most talented person. I was never outstanding at any one of the disciplines, but if you're dedicated and you're willing to put the time in, you can really achieve some good results. — Helen Jenkins
With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it. — Amanda Beard
Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again. — Brandi Chastain
Feeling Good Sport Quotes
Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley
It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020. — Herbert Hainer
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else. — Bill Vaughan
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people. — William Petersen
It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country. — Rick Reilly
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose. — Katrina Onstad
I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way. — Jim Abbott
What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way. — Robert Knepper
You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team. — Alonzo Mourning
Good Sport Motivational Quotes
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. — Martina Navratilova
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody. — Kenyon Martin
Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success. — Nastia Liukin
A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself. — Pete Carril
I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high. — Jose Bautista
We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things. — Steve Alford
Great Sport Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. — Wilma Rudolph
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros
You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all. — The Ultimate Warrior
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. — Jerry West
I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over. — Bill Russell
Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know. — Anna Sewell
When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. — Darryl Dawkins
When you play sports like tennis, you're alone, and that's a good school for life, but it's also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too - helping others in difficult moments. — Jurgen Klopp
People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman. — Martina Navratilova
A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one. — Miller Huggins
Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching. — Cory Snyder
Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play. — Clair Bee
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. — Dalai Lama
Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them. — Kevin Costner
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity. — Billy Sunday
I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything. — Demetri Martin
So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor. — Rose Macaulay
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Woodrow Wilson
When your Islamic discourse with someone becomes a debate, that's when you know that you have to stop. The psychology of a debate is like a sports competition, and no one likes to lose. So even if you make a good point, the other person isn't going to congratulate you. They are thinking about revenge. — Nouman Ali Khan
Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls. — Lou Holtz
I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself. — LaVell Edwards
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. — Casey Stengel
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