Sportsman Quotes · Page 3

I love and respect my sport, but I am not a bad guy. First, I am a sportsman.

— Gennady Golovkin

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Ian Botham

Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.

— Penny Lancaster

I was training my whole younger life to be a sportsman. Rugby was my main thing.

— Nicholas Galitzine

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

— Clive Owen

Rob Lowe is a sportsman and a ladykiller and it's impossible to be in a scene with him and not immediately begin…

— Emily Procter

I'm a sportsman. I am used to failures, and bouncing back from them.

— Vishnu Vishal

“The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with…

— Donald Bradman

During my early days as a sportsman and early career as a policeman, things were tight. In athletics I competed as an…

— Geoff Capes

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal, when he wantonly destroys one of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try…

— David Beckham

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic…

— Edward Abbey

It's good for your career as a sportsman if you watch other professional sports - how they're behaving and how they react…

— Michael Ballack

I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in…

— Shahid Afridi

As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me…

— Rory McIlroy

People used to think I was so strange because my toiletry bag used to contain so many grooming items and cosmetics and…

— Nick Youngquest

“If a sportsman true you’d be Listen carefully to me; Never, never let your gun Pointed be at anyone; That it might…

— Anne Edwards

The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Everyone has tests in their life. They come in lots of different forms. I had two or three together, which definitely challenged…

— Brian O'Driscoll

Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Other sportsmen have confided in me that they're gay. The advice I give is that coming out is great for you as…

— Gareth Thomas

In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my…

— Rob Lowe

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

Maybe I am a little bit of a clown, but I am also a serious sportsman.

— Eddie the Eagle

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

— Al Gore

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

— Joe Calzaghe

The idea of giving up is really alien to a sportsman who's all about winning at all costs.

— Tony Adams

“The success of a sportsman rests on his (or her) capacity to suffer, even to enjoy suffering.”

— Parul Sheth

I'm a professional sportsman and you simply have to deal with missed cuts - it's a part of life.

— Shane Lowry

I'm a sportsman, as good and strong as you, who just happens to be gay.

— Gareth Thomas

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— John E. Walker

Maybe it's the sportsman in me, but if it is going to be television, I want to be the best I can…

— Andrew Flintoff

“If you play just to stay healthy and not to win, by all means, keep playing.”

— Amit Kalantri

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

— Leo Durocher

I am a sportsman, not a brand ambassador, besides being the first goalkeeper of Adidas.

— Manuel Neuer

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

— Lynn Davies