Sportsman Quotes - Page 3

• First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

  Cliff Stearns

  Rights, Second Amendment, Generations

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• When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

  Johnny Weir

  Cheer, Elements, Way

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• Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.

  Oliver Bierhoff

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• Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

  Ai Weiwei

  Philosophy, Stronger, Landscape

  "Gold Is Not the Real Measure of a Nation". www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2008.

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• Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Player, Show Me

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• 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

  Giving Up, Play, Politician

  "Cricket pitch to parliament: Sachin Tendulkar's political move" by Harmeet Shah Singh, www.cnn.com. May 02, 2012.

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• A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Honesty, Care

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.120

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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

  Science, Use, Able

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.229, Penguin

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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

  Running, Gun, Talking

  "Clinton courts working classes with protectionist stance" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2008.

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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. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

  Kipchoge Keino

  Motivational, Running, Fun

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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; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Nice, Australia

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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 running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?

  Marat Safin

  Running, Mean, Winning

  "Marat Safin crashes out of Shanghai with swipe at Berdych and Roddick", www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2009.

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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 as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

  Angela Merkel

  Sorry, Athlete, Effort

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

  George Ellwanger

  Skills, Cooking, Excellence

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• 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.

  Matt Smith

  Sacrifice, Artist, Discipline

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, People, Lucky

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• I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

  Joe Manchin

  Clay, Three, Shells

  "Gun Advocate Sen. Joe Manchin Calls For Gun Law Changes After Newtown". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 18, 2012.

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• 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

  Football, Real, Player

  "Smoking Barthez ignores Ferguson" by David Barnes, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

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• A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Hunters, Woods

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• The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Gun

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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 will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Son, Player

  "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman".

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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 (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility. As the existentialists would have it, we determine our own honor minute by minute, action by action, one decision at a time.

  David Petersen

  Responsibility, Long Ago, Law

  "The North American Model for Wildlife Conservation Is an Endangered Species in Colorado" by David Petersen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Talking, World

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• Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Party, Passion, Political Opinions

  Hilaire Belloc (2008). “The Party System”, p.37, IHS Press

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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

  Challenges, Important, Needs

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