Top 71 Quotes About Bad Sportsmanship
#2. 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
#3. Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context - randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out "I swear to God!" is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship.
Claudia Rankine
#5. 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
#6. That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.
Tristan Blackwood
#7. People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
George Will
#9. Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Fred Perry
#10. Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.
Wade Clark Mackey
#11. I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
Ian Watson
#12. In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.
Pierre De Coubertin
#13. We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
Pat Conroy
#14. If it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score?
Ron Brackin
#15. I was pleased with both games. Our sportsmanship was outstanding.
Wade Clark Mackey
#16. True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!
Lorii Myers
#17. 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.
Chili Davis
#18. Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect.
Tommy Hilfiger
#19. The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.
Junior Seau
#20. 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.
Francis Ouimet
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Sportsmanship isn't about criticizing the "ONE" who didn't win on "That ONE"day... it's about appreciating and supporting their hard work amidst failures!!!
Akansh Malik
#24. It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.
Major Taylor
#25. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
#26. Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
Herbert Hoover
#27. Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.
Gary Gygax
#28. Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.
Warren Moon
#29. One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne
#30. For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.
Mike Tyson
#31. It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain
#32. 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.
Fielding H. Yost
#33. Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
George Vecsey
#34. Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#35. When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.
Mary Ellen Clark
#36. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#37. Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
John McGraw
#38. If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.
Bob Ley
#40. I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.
Dara Torres
#41. If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.
Glenn Dobbs
#42. 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
#43. Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.
Babe Ruth
#44. I like to give opinions, not suggestions
John Wooden
#45. I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.
Allen Iverson
#46. We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.
Eric Hyman
#47. On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.
Martina Navratilova
#48. Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is.
T.H. White
#49. Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
Bobby Bowden
#53. 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
#54. Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.
Tommy Hilfiger
#55. 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
#56. In sports, I win because your better. You win because your better. That's it I don't accept excuses.
Kenneth De Guzman
#58. 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
#59. I suppose settling an argument with tear gas is poor sportsmanship
Jim Bernheimer
#60. Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one.
David Sedaris
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. ...(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
#64. Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.
Kevin Wall
#65. 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
#66. It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
Vince Lombardi
#68. Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#69. I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor
#70. Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?
Tiger Woods
#71. 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
