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. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.
During my early days as a sportsman and early career as a policeman, things were tight. In athletics I competed as an amateur and, although I might have received some expenses, very little came my way in earnings.
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. " But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest of situations.
When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.
You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
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 become a sportsman.
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking.
Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible.
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.
Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.
I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.
My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.
If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up to be so much more than one person could ever be.
