What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.
Blame is the cowards way out.
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
We can talk about the value of sportsmanship on one hand, and on the other hand, the leading shots, highlights ... you see every night are the outrageous and unsportsmanlike, so I think there is a double standard here. On the one hand, we complain about it, on the other hand it's the first thing you see every night.
It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.
I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.
I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.
In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.
Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church!
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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