Sportsmanship Ethic Quotes

I don't have any use for the hatred in a football stadium.

Once you're on the pitch, you play for your team, and you want to win. During the year, you can play against friends - you can play against big friends and close friends - but once you are on the pitch, this friendship goes away, and you just focus on winning the game.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

I do watch sports. How could I not? Just for self-preservation.

We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

I think if you are champ, you shouldn't choose your opponents.

We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

Just like in everything else, there are people in football who you don't particularly like.

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

I am sorry for causing anyone to lose faith in sport.

Football unites, and no one can use a football platform for political means.

I think the basketball gods will get you every time if you start trying to mess with the game. You've got to take what the schedule gives you, or who the standings give you.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

There is a great deal of fair play in English football.

I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another.

I try not to be a typical athlete.

No, I don't have any favorite opponent. It is not my duty to select my opposition.

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