Alberto Juantorena Quotes

We’re stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

Since 2000, it's been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus... is player safety.

If you're an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.

We cannot constantly supervise everyone in football ...you cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.

It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up.

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

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

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

All I know of morality I learned from football

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

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.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

I just get on with my game and let the referees do their job.

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

You will never see players from City surround the referee.

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?

You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

I don't get too upset or bent out of shape from things that go on on the field. But I think that you always want to try to keep it classy. You don't want to do any stupid fouls, and sometimes - sometimes the game gets to you; people react differently.

I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.