Quotes About Sportsmen

#1. I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

Don McCullin

#2. 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

#3. The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Martina Navratilova

#4. 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

#5. A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.

Charlton Heston

#6. I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

Eddie Redmayne

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

Al Gore

#8. The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Bertrand Russell

#9. For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

Gary Neville

#10. She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

Barack Obama

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

Jerome K. Jerome

#12. The vast majority of sportsmen are left with little choice as regards how to play, serfs to their talent, but the very best are able to do so as they want, impressing personality upon ability.

Daniel Harris

#13. My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

Romesh Gunesekera

#14. They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

Jill Douglas

#15. For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

Ian Botham

#16. A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

Clive Owen

#17. The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers.

Thomas Huxley

#18. Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

Nick Hornby

#19. First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

Cliff Stearns

#20. Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

Jeev Milkha Singh

#21. I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

Angela Merkel

#22. People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

Will Carling

#23. This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

Anatoli Boukreev

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

Alexander Pope

#25. To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.

Robert Dallek

#26. 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

#27. I have never felt spite to my rival, I have never got me into a spite like did other sportsmen". "I think that my attitude to the rival should be with a lot of respect".

Sergey Matyushkov

#28. I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

Jill Douglas

#29. I think it's becoming more commonplace, not just for sportsmen, but for all guys to take care of themselves. You can see in the marketplace that's the case as well, with more male products out there all the time.

Nick Youngquest

#30. I come from a long line of sportsmen.

Armin Zoggeler

#31. Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

Ai Weiwei

#32. Sport, Madame la Comtesse, sport," asserted Lord Antony, with his jovial, loud and pleasant voice; "we are a nation of sportsmen, you know, and just now it is the fashion to pull the hare from between the teeth of the hound." "Ah,

Emmuska Orczy

#33. Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.

Bill Toomey

#34. The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. You see history in the making and that is definitely the highlight. You get to meet these amazing sportsmen and women, and see them develop as individuals. You get to meet them when they're first coming into their sport. You watch them develop and you build up relationships with them.

Jill Douglas

#36. Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard.

Rahul Dravid

#37. Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

Harsha Bhogle

#38. We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

Jonathan Sacks