Sportsman Quotes

• Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Hunting, Moral

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

  Avery Brundage

  Sports, Eye, Games

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• As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

  Lynn Davies

  Sports, Athlete, Ambition

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

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

  Stephen Leacock

  Men, Now And Then, Economy

  'My Remarkable Uncle' (1942) p. 73

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• The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Thinking, Vanity, Effort

  "The Real Problem in DC: Sportsmanship" by Michael Brick, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

  John E. Walker

  Soccer, School, Captains

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• When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Guy, Corny

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• When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.148, University of Iowa Press

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• Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Focus

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• True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

  Alexander Pope

  Sports, Athlete, Delight

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.120

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• In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Animal, Reality

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Hunting, Animal

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

  Joan Sutherland

  Sports, Technique, Singers

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• I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Sports, Football, Believe

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• Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

  Rachel Weisz

  Expression, Iron, Acting

  "Rachel Weisz Style Evolution: From Uggs To The Oscars", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.

  Earl Monroe

  Fun, Guy, Stories

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• Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Winning, Games, Play

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• Ruslan Chagaev is a great boxer and very experienced. He has won almost all of his fights and has already been world champion. And he is a fair sportsman. That is something I like. I have a lot of respect for him.

  Alexander Povetkin

  Fighting, Champion, World

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.

  Jill Douglas

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Special

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I've never pumped myself up or made myself angry as some sportsmen do. I think that one should treat his opponent with great respect.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Thinking, Mma, Opponents

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• No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

  Aldo Leopold

  Ties, Stronger, Groups

  Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle (2001). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.189, Island Press

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• I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.

  Jason Statham

  Dream, Fighting, Years

  Source: movieweb.com

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• To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

  Emily Post

  Sports, Games, Irritation

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.529, Cosimo, Inc.

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