Kemba Walker Quotes

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

We all know what my game is, to play hard. Not dirty, but play hard.

Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

To show respect for the opponent is to go and kill with every single action. That is the way you show it. You need to be aggressive. That is how I understand football.

I don't have no issue with any guy. I'm a football player. I'm a competitor. When we're in the field, we're going to compete and be competitive. It's not personal between none of these guys. It's all in the game.

I approach this game with the utmost respect for every player.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

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.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

You have to respect all your competitors.

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

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.

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

In football you should never take anything for granted.

I think my biggest trait is to play extremely hard within the rules of the game.

It's nice when you can have that battle on the pitch and then there's respect after the game because, ultimately, you are just trying to do your best.

There's a lot of talented guys, but there's not a lot of guys that play the game that right way.