Pete Rose Quotes

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

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost.

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.

I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

Football is wonderful because no one is right: there's no absolute truth.

We definitely don't want to get in others' way while we're competing.

It's kind of interesting on a team sport because you have young players, you have older players, you have veterans. But ultimately, when you step in between those lines, you're just a player.

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.

Competing is different than violence. Sport is love. It's passion. There's no passion in hurting people.

I know tennis is just a game, but it's something that it can actually unite us even more.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.