Good Sports Quotes

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  A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Athlete, Hockey

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• Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Dedication, Teamwork and Camaraderie: Tim Duncan" by Angela Guzman, www.beliefnet.com.

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• A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

  Ara Parseghian

  Motivational, Sports, Teamwork

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

  Jerry West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• What's tough is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Sports, Game Day

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• The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Athlete, Adversity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Inspirational, Sports, Trouble

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• You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sports, Guy, Next

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.

  Celia Imrie

  Girl, Sports, Boys

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• To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

  Steve Bunce

  Sports, Noses, Ability

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.

  Randy Lerner

  Sports, People, Competition

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• I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.

  Fred Perry

  Sports, Athlete, Tennis

  "Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies" by Paul Fein, (p. 146), 2003.

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• I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

  Sue Wicks

  Basketball, Sports, Believe

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• Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one of those women men like to call 'a pal' and 'a good sport,' the kind of woman they tell their troubles to. But you've cut yourself off from the orchids and the diamond bracelets, except those you buy yourself.

  Sophie Tucker

  Sports, Running, Cutting

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• I held out my hand and George Mitchell said, "Like in everything else, you lead and I'll follow." And the crowd broke up, and we did a twirl or two around the dance floor. And that's like him, you know, he was there for his members, he campaigned for us, he believed in us, and he was really a good sport as well.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Sports, Hands, Two

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Sports, Mean, Treating Others

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2015.

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sports, Introducing, Late

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.504, Penguin

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• There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.

  Earl Blaik

  Sports, Differences, Champion

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• The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

  Mason Cooley

  Sports, Giving Up, Winning

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• It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Sports, Selfish, People

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.

  Gabrielle Burton

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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