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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Real, Sides, Nonsense

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

  Al Gore

  Gun, Talking, Hunters

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• What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

  Alexander Pope

  War, Delight, Care

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• I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably reflect the sport safely available. The second and deeply urgent one is that we shall grow a race of sportsmen no one of whom will ever consider it a matter of pride to have killed a limit.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sports, Pride, Sea

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Charles Dudley Warner (1878). “In the Wilderness”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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• Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .

  George Bodenheimer

  Sports, Pioneers, Host

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• Any professional sportsman will tell you that you can work out in the gym as much as you like, but eating is the key. It's making sure that you eat a healthy diet with lots of fruit and carbohydrates, such as pasta and rice, so that you're always refuelling. If you're going into games tired or your training tired, then there's a risk of injury.

  Phil Hill

  Tired, Keys, Games

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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