Good Sportsmanship Quotes

• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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.

  Sue Wicks

  Basketball, Winning, Thinking

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• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  Major Taylor

  Play, Careers, Practice

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

  Fred Perry

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

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• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sports, Inspiration

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• What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Real

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• The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Athlete, Adversity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Richard Armour

  Leadership, Sports, Unhappy

  Richard Willard Armour, “Good Sportsmanship”

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• Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Sports, Mean, Treating Others

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Games, Sportsmanship

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.

  Allen Iverson

  Winning, Sportsmanship

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• I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.

  Emilie Loring

  Writing, Giving, Trying

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