#sportsman

I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause-from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#tennis #life

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#allow #before #believe #cannot #desire

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

— Knute Rockne

#better #far #hundred #man #practicing

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#active #any #around #background #cricket

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#am #continue #cricket #enter #giving

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

Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#life #life-lessons #sports #sportsmanship #inspirational

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

— Lynn Davies

#enjoyed #great #i #sportsman #youngster

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ↗

— Mark Twain

#balls #golf #golf balls #good #lost

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