Top 36 Best Sportsmanship Quotes
#1. Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.
Tommy Hilfiger
#2. Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.
Thisuri Wanniarachchi
#4. Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
Bobby Bowden
#5. A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#6. What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance
in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.
H.L. Mencken
#7. Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus
#8. Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is.
T.H. White
#9. If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.
Bob Ley
#10. We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.
Eric Hyman
#11. I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.
Allen Iverson
#12. I like to give opinions, not suggestions
John Wooden
#13. Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.
Babe Ruth
#14. 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.
Elaine Jones
#15. If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.
Glenn Dobbs
#16. I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.
Dara Torres
#18. On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.
Martina Navratilova
#19. After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle
#20. Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?
Tiger Woods
#21. I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor
#22. Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#24. It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
Vince Lombardi
#25. 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.
Randeep Hooda
#26. 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.
Andrew Young
#27. ...(he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.
Lesa Cline-Ransome
#28. Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter."
The Grand Seneschal shrugged. "The Master did not protest. And, indeed, what weapon could he have suggested that would suit him any better?"
"Fire," she said.
"He would not," said the Seneschal. "You know he would not.
Robin McKinley
#29. 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!
Stone Cold Steve Austin
#31. Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.
John Podhoretz
#32. Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one.
David Sedaris
#33. I suppose settling an argument with tear gas is poor sportsmanship
Jim Bernheimer
#34. 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
#35. If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.
John Ridley
#36. 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
