ethics in sports Quotes

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

All I know of morality I learned from football

I think the Patriots actually live by the saying, 'If you're not cheating, you're not trying.'

Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

The Russians are the dirtiest players I’ve ever seen.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.