One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. — Knute Rockne
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 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
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body. — Gary Neville
Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport. — Tommy Hilfiger
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 must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. — Martina Navratilova
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. — Bill Russell
That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight. — Jurgen Klopp
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not. — George A. Sheehan
A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
Short Sportsman Quotes
A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo. — Robert Breault
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. — John E. Walker
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. — Lynn Davies
When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50. — Guy Forget
Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade. — Leo Durocher
True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit. — Alexander Pope
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. — Stephen Leacock
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. — Phyllis Mcginley
I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in. — Joe Manchin
He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking. — Vitali Klitschko
Sportsman Image Quotes
Good Sportsmanship Quotes
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain
Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect. — Tommy Hilfiger
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. — Sue Wicks
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
Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it. — Richard Armour
Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not. — John Wooden
I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better. — Emilie Loring
That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot. — Tristan Blackwood
Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport. — Manfred von Richthofen
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? — Rachel Weisz
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen. — Eddie Redmayne
I've never pumped myself up or made myself angry as some sportsmen do. I think that one should treat his opponent with great respect. — Fedor Emelianenko
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. — Lionel Messi
You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman. — Michael Schumacher
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. — Pierre de Coubertin
I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest of situations. — Shahid Afridi
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. — Avery Brundage
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. — Edward Abbey
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman. — Johnny Weir
To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests. — Emily Post
If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you? — Marat Safin
It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing. — Brett Lee
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. — Ian Botham
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. — Alexander Pope
As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be. — Rory McIlroy
Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. — Sachin Tendulkar
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. — Henry David Thoreau
I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen. — Abhishek Bachchan
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. — Theodore Roosevelt
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials. — Charlton Heston
As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose. — Kipchoge Keino
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. — Alex Ferguson
Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman. — David Beckham
Well, talking about Ethiopia is like talking about the whole continent. A month ago we played against AIDS and famine. We also played in Dakar. It is not only the music which is playing an important role on this issue of problems affecting Africa, but the activities of doctors, sportsmen and journalists are also helping in various ways. — Manu Dibango
Any professional sportsman will tell you that you can work out in the gym as much as you like, but eating is the key. It's making sure that you eat a healthy diet with lots of fruit and carbohydrates, such as pasta and rice, so that you're always refuelling. If you're going into games tired or your training tired, then there's a risk of injury. — Phil Hill
Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game. — Hilaire Belloc
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this. — William Cowper Prime
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.' — Ai Weiwei
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket. — Sachin Tendulkar
We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives. — Jonathan Sacks
You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. — John Hurt
Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug. — Jerome K. Jerome
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members. — Aldo Leopold
I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people. — Steve Waugh
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