Sportsman Quotes

56 Sportsman quotes by 52 unique authors

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… — David Beckham
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. — Lynn Davies
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… — Gary Neville
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. — Martina Navratilova
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. — Alexander Pope
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
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
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.… — Kipchoge Keino
I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds;… — Steve Waugh
A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when… — David Petersen
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… — 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… — David Beckham
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… — Angela Merkel
If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start… — Marat Safin
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. — John E. Walker
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… — Pierre de Coubertin
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. — Stephen Leacock
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,… — Avery Brundage
Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman. — Oliver Bierhoff
When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50. — Guy Forget
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of… — George Ellwanger
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this. — Unknown Author
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never… — William Tecumseh Sherman
This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen. — Anatoli Boukreev
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

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