Browsing Topic Best Sportsmanship Quotes

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you’re the one talking.

Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called ‘sportsmanship’. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.

I’ve always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

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.

Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

I’m a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that’s a special club.

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

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

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

The focus should be on the players. I’m here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win… channel your energy. Focus.

I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don’t succeed, you won’t be in your profession for long. In our society, it’s not about good or bad. It’s about who’s on top.

If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

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

Blame is the cowards way out.

She’s learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I’m most proud that she’s improved her sportsmanship, her demeanor on the field. She’s still working on leadership and that’s improving.

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

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

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.

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.

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.

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you’re going to spend a lot of time losing.