Jim Courier Quotes

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

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

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.

You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!

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.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

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.

There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

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

NBA players are intense competitors, and it is truly humbling to know that my peers see me as someone who exhibits sportsmanship and respect on the court.

To be respectful to opponents is to play hard against them.

Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.

We don't ever show up trying to throw games.

We can be kind to others and kind to ourselves - and what anyone else decides to do is up to them. We can just be responsible to ourselves.

I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

It's a challenge, but every single German or Canadian I want to beat, I still have to love them. That means competing the way God wants me to compete and helping my opponents if they have a need.

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 can honestly say that every time I go on court, I see the opponent in a competitive way, but not a rival.

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

Even if you win, or you lose, you have to respect your opponent.