Fair Play Quotes

• It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Struggle, Rights

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud.

  Richard Branson

  Dirty, Play, Mud

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• Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Play, Justice

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up.

  Marketa Irglova

  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Success, Sports, Play

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• Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Rights, Play

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.23, Modern Library

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• Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

  Winston Churchill

  Despair, Weary

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.399, A&C Black

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• I like honesty and fair play.

  Marcus Garvey

  Honesty, Play, Fairs

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

  Agnes Repplier

  Play, Groups, Fairness

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Fifa stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

  Sepp Blatter

  Play, Discipline, Fifa

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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• I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.

  Tom Brady

  Believe, Play, Long

  "Texas terror attack sparks debate on limits of free speech". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Fair play is a jewel.

  Walter Scott

  Jewels, Play, Justice

  Sir Walter Scott (2014). “Redgauntlet”, p.438, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  Major Taylor

  Play, Careers, Practice

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition andcooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.

  James P. Comer

  Hurt, Children, Believe

  James P. Comer (1995). “School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project”

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dirty, Practice, Play

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Warrior, Play, Lovers

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• The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

  Homer

  War, Play, Want

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad: the story of Achilles”, New American Library of Canada

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• I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Play, Common Sense, Never Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.73

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• Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for the rules and traditions of the sport and various traits of good character including integrity (abiding by the letter and spirit of the rules and concepts of honor); demonstrated respect for others including teammates, opponents, officials and spectators; accountability, self-control, and graciousness in victory and defeat.

  Michael Josephson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

  Arsene Wenger

  Play, English Words, Doe

  Arsene Wenger's statement on April 19, 1997, as quoted in David Manson "Quotations from the Public Comments of Arsene Wenger: Manager, Arsenal Football Club", June 9, 2005.

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• I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Opportunity, Squares

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.177, Cornell University Press

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• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Philosophical, Civilization, Play

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Play, Laughing

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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