Ethical Competition Quotes

To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.

Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

You have to respect the opponent as much as possible.

I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

I'm always competitive, but if I didn't win fair and square, I didn't win. And I want to win if I'm genuinely better than my competitor.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.

The Lord calls us to love everybody. Every day it's a challenge. Within this sport, I'm called to love everybody. That means that every single German or Canadian that I want to beat, I still have to love. That means competing the way God wants me to compete. That means doing things that might not necessarily be seen as giving me a competitive advantage but instead doing what God would want me to do.

It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.

The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.