Sportsmanship Quotes: top 45 famous quotes about Sportsmanship

Sportsmanship Quotes & Sayings

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If it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score? — Ron Brackin

We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation. — Eric Hyman

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them. — Mary Ellen Clark

Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport. — Tommy Hilfiger

True sportsmanship is excellence in motion! — Lorii Myers

Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously. — Babe Ruth

I like to give opinions, not suggestions — John Wooden

It's because you absolutely love the sport. — Nastia Liukin

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.? — Tiger Woods

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from. — Warren Moon

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention. — Cal Ripken Jr.

I would rather win than have good sportsmanship. — Allen Iverson

Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one. — David Sedaris

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up. — Vince Lombardi

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. — Fred Perry

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals. — Herbert Hoover

I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night. — Dara Torres

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. — Michael Jordan

Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect. — Tommy Hilfiger

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching. — Bob Ley

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. — Knute Rockne

That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot. — Tristan Blackwood

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds. — John McGraw

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor

There is no such thing as sportsmanship. — Terrell Davis

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. — Pat Conroy

Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament. — Wade Clark Mackey

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules. — Bobby Bowden

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I was pleased with both games. Our sportsmanship was outstanding. — Wade Clark Mackey

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

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing. — Glenn Dobbs

Be fair. Play hard. — Dan Venezia

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect. — Junior Seau

Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is. — T.H. White

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

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. — Jack Nicklaus

I suppose settling an argument with tear gas is poor sportsmanship — Jim Bernheimer

For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship. — Mike Tyson

In sports, I win because your better. You win because your better. That's it I don't accept excuses. — Kenneth De Guzman

On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style. — Martina Navratilova

Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi