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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. -- Lynn Davies
When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50. -- Guy Forget
You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman. -- Michael Schumacher
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. -- Lionel Messi
Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman. -- David Beckham
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
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
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
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
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. -- John E. Walker
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit. -- Alexander Pope
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members. -- Aldo Leopold
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. -- Theodore Roosevelt
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. -- Stephen Leacock
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. -- Martina Navratilova
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
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
My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from. -- Filo Tiatia
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
If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up to be so much more than one person could ever be. -- Liz Garbus
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
Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun. -- Earl Monroe
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
The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof. -- Rachel Carson
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
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
I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist. -- Jerry Seinfeld
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. -- Stephen Leacock
I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture. -- Rob Lowe
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve. -- Matt Smith
As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals. -- Kapil Dev
It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.' -- Ernie Els
Make working out the centre band of core and hips a priority during any training session. As a sportsman, it's the key to any movement and the source of most of your power. -- Andrew Luck
As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't. -- Suresh Raina
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket. -- Sachin Tendulkar
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time. -- Joan Sutherland
It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic! -- David Beckham
As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be. -- Rory McIlroy
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. -- Alex Ferguson
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
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman. -- Johnny Weir
One guy that really inspired me was Michael Jordan. I wouldn't say that he inspired me as a sportsman, but I love going back and watching videos of him, especially how he conducts himself in interviews. He always seemed to be very careful about the words that he used and thought about everything differently to anybody else. -- Matteo Manassero
He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking. -- Vitali Klitschko
Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman. -- Oliver Bierhoff
A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo. -- Robert Breault
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. -- Alexander Pope
Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade. -- Leo Durocher
I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in. -- Joe Manchin
When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before. -- Cathy Freeman
It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing. -- Brett Lee
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this. -- William Cowper Prime
I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest of situations. -- Shahid Afridi
If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish! -- Narendra Modi
I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it. -- Jason Statham
As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose. -- Kipchoge Keino

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