Dale Steyn Quotes

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

Knowing that the teams in front of us are sometimes better than you, you have to recognise that and be humble. It's part of the game.

When you go out on to that field it's going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent's hand.

Even after defeating India, I still have the highest respect for them as opponents.

The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.

We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

I love preseason games. They are fun to me because you get to go out there with guys that are on the NFL field for the first time and playing against guys who are going to be on the field for the first time.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories.

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.

Everybody wants recognition, but we can't all get it.

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.