#sportsman

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds. ↗

— John McGraw

#crowds #easygoing #fight #hot #methods

It's because you absolutely love the sport. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship #inspirational

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

#alcoholic #becomes #body #england #english

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

#basketball #game #sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. ↗

— John E. Walker

#captain #cricket #i #keen #school

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50. ↗

— Guy Forget

#great #guys #professional #sportsman #top

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

#i #i am #indeed #international #lucky

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#golf #respect #rules #sportsmanship #traditions

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

#any #aside #bad #basically #being

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#better #far #hundred #man #practicing