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Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds. -- John McGraw
There is no such thing as sportsmanship. -- Terrell Davis
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals. -- Herbert Hoover
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. -- Knute Rockne
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. -- Fred Perry
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. -- Mark Twain
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. -- Major Taylor
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
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. -- John Wooden
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. -- Michael Jordan
We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation. -- Eric Hyman
If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I was pleased with both games. Our sportsmanship was outstanding. -- Wade Clark Mackey
That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot. -- Tristan Blackwood
Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously. -- Babe Ruth
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -- Benjamin Franklin
When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them. -- Mary Ellen Clark
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching. -- Bob Ley
Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament. -- Wade Clark Mackey
Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race. -- Pam Grier
Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun! -- Picabo Street
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
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
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
The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship. -- Amy Van Dyken
Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from. -- Warren Moon
Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules. -- Bobby Bowden
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
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
The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect. -- Junior Seau
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. -- Jack Nicklaus
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
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
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
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
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
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
True sportsmanship is excellence in motion! -- Lorii Myers
I would rather win than have good sportsmanship. -- Allen Iverson
Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect. -- Tommy Hilfiger
Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.? -- Tiger Woods
Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport. -- Tommy Hilfiger
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship. -- Aldo Leopold
It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. -- Mark Twain
If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing. -- Glenn Dobbs
Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship. -- Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship. -- Mike Tyson
On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style. -- Martina Navratilova
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
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
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
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
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

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