Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there.

I admire Messi: he's never complained to me in any game we played, but I've also never asked him for his jersey and never would. I came to win, not to say I played against Messi.

I never went around saying who my brother was. Everybody else was doing that.

I have always tried to be myself on the pitch and probably my biggest pleasure is when fans of other teams come to show me their respect.

I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

I'm a blue collar guy from Spokane, Washington, who was raised to just be respectful, be a sportsman, and just speak with your performances, and I'm glad that I'm back to my old ways.

It's important to play the right way. If you play the right way, it's so much fun.

It's never over until we're shaking hands at the net. Then you've either won or you've lost, and - either way - you look them in the eye and say, 'Well played, mate.'

I'm not one to call people out, if you look at my history in the fighting game, I've never called anyone out.

I have a healthy respect. The fact that I get ready for each opponent shows my respect.

I play with great players.

If I'm throwing a no-hitter and someone says, 'Hey, you've got a no-hitter,' obviously I'd be like, 'Yeah, I know.' I just try to be humble. I don't like to talk about myself. I have no problem speaking up when I screw up, but if I'm doing good, people are going to notice. I don't need to talk about it.

I play sport all the time.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of that golf game? Boehner will be crying over his score and Obama will be giving three explanations as to why his score is actually better than it appears.

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.