Ernesto Valverde Quotes

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

You have to respect all your competitors.

It's just, some players I don't respect. Just their playing style of basketball. I don't respect it. I feel like it's basically cheating and I don't respect a cheater. If that's your tactic to winning, I don't respect you.

You always need to have the highest respect for your opponents. If you see them fighting, you know you have to give something extra.

You have to respect the opponent as much as possible.

I'm not a dirty player.

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

I can not express more the importance of treating your teammates, opponents and coaches with the utmost respect.

A backheel is good if it works, not if it disrespects the opponents.

I would never discredit the sport or my opponent by reading my injury list before or after the fight. I've always thought it's a very underhanded thing to do, and it's a very cowardly thing to do, to come out and say, 'I'm hurt,' particularly if you win a fight.

My philosophy is to respect the opposition off the field and play it as tough as possible on it.

I don't like disrespecting other teams.

It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.

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?

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

I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.

Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.

I don't have any problem with tackles or duels, but I react when I notice that someone is only trying to kick me out of the game. But I never have the intention to hurt anyone. Everything is forgotten again a minute later.

Coaches respect each other, and it's a tough business.

I respect my competition.

That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

In the fight, we are fighters, but after, we have respect for each other.

If you're going to scream and yell and pull a groin when calling a catch, you have to really make sure what you're seeing is actually what's happening.

When people start talking to me about slow play and how I'm killing the game, I'm doing this and that to the game, that is complete and utter you-know-what.

I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team.