Graydon Carter Quotes

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

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.

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.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Some sports give a lot of emotions because you know the people well, not personally but they express their passion and their emotion on the field so you have an attraction. In tennis, because of this code of conduct that is extremely strict, players do not show their personality.

I am well aware of it myself that I have to be careful. But I want to make it clear that I am not a dirty player.

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

I'm not going to put them all in a box and say they all cheat. There are some good guys and I have met some good guys that play basketball.

The Baltimore boys only defend themselves when playing against teams that treat us mean, especially that bunch from Cincinnati.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.

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

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

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.

There is no such thing as sportsmanship.

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

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

You have to respect all your competitors.

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.