Payne Stewart Quotes

We will respect all our opponents, as we always do.

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.

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

You have to respect your opponent.

I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

You can be rivals out on the pitch, but respect is the most important thing.

I respect my competition.

I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.

We respect all our opponents.

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.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time.

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

We have to respect the opponents.

It's business inside the ring, but outside it, it's friendship and brotherhood. I try to do that with all my opponents.

When you go out on to that field it's going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent's hand.

Golf's a gentleman's game. So it's all about integrity and you cheer on other people, and it's kind of different from other sports where you just want to beat everyone.

I don't like to disrespect people or my opponents. Anything can happen.

It's never over until we're shaking hands at the net. Then you've either won or you've lost, and - either way - you look them in the eye and say, 'Well played, mate.'

Football is beautiful. Football is beautiful because whether you win, draw, or lose, you can go and shake your opponent's hand, whether they're white or black or red or blue.

I always respect my team and my competitors. I never had problems with anybody.

We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.

In Germany, it is normal, when games end, you shake hands with your players.

Win or lose, do it fairly.