Niko Kovac Quotes

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be polite.

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.

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind.

All doors open to courtesy.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

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

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

You have to respect the opponent as much as possible.

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.

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

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.

I wanted to be positive. I have good sportsmanship. You leave everything on a good note, you just smile and shake hands.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

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