Sporting Ethics Quotes

We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

I root for good, clean basketball.

Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

I don't want my fans to shout any insults at my opponent.

I would never intend to hurt anyone I'm in the ring with. It's entertainment, it's a performance, it's a sport.

A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.

Sporting behaviour means fair behaviour. This is the player's task, not the referee's.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Spirit of cricket is not about just the guidelines provided.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.