Jim Courier Quotes

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

Jay Wright is class personified. He wins with class, loses with dignity when he does, which is not often.

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.

We're gracious and we're humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.

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.

Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.'

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

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.

I would rather have honesty and character than prestige and wealth. I can walk and ride the streets of this city, hold my head up, and look all men in the face.

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

We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned.

Winning isn't all that matters.

Obviously results are what count in senior football, but performing the right way as well is important.

Wasim Akram is a splendid human being and a thorough gentleman.

The belt doesn't represent me; it's how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.

Tyrone Corbin is a class act.

I'll fight you, and I'll have respect at the end. If you win, I have respect; if I win, I expect respect, Ray Mercer, man, I don't want to mention this guy's name anymore. He gets no respect from me. He was not professional, and he showed poor sportsmanship.

We will graduate our players, and we will do it all with integrity and with class.

When you want to win, man, when you're in a winning organization, you take pride in it. And when you lose, you let everybody know you lost. You're not walking around happy.

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.