Sportsman Quotes
56 Sportsman quotes by 52 unique authors
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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
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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
— Lynn Davies
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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
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The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
— Martina Navratilova
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
— Alexander Pope
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
— John E. Walker
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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
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
— Stephen Leacock
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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
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Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.
— Oliver Bierhoff
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When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.
— Guy Forget
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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
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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
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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
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This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.
— Anatoli Boukreev
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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
Who Wrote These Sportsman Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 56 Sportsman Quotes, led by these top contributors: