Sportsman Quotes - Page 4

• This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Years, Roles, Clear

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• A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

  Clive Owen

  Actors, Rooms

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• It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

  William Cowper Prime

  Fishing, Doe, Sake

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.143

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• It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Country, Patriotic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.

  Rachel Carson

  Mean, Water, Community

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• They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

  Jill Douglas

  Giving Up, Drinking, Levels

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Commitment, Effort

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You see history in the making and that is definitely the highlight. You get to meet these amazing sportsmen and women, and see them develop as individuals. You get to meet them when they're first coming into their sport. You watch them develop and you build up relationships with them.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Firsts, Watches

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• 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.

  Filo Tiatia

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• 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.

  Liz Garbus

  Giggs, Looks, Woods

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• If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, College, Men

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• 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.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Sports, Passion

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• You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

  Michael Schumacher

  Believe, Trying, Weakness

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• 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

  Believe, Desire, Rooms

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• For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

  Gary Neville

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Football, Greatness

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• No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

  Aldo Leopold

  Ties, Stronger, Groups

  Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle (2001). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.189, Island Press

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• To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

  Emily Post

  Sports, Games, Irritation

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.529, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.

  Jason Statham

  Dream, Fighting, Years

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.

  Earl Monroe

  Fun, Guy, Stories

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• Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Winning, Games, Play

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.

  Jill Douglas

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Special

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Ruslan Chagaev is a great boxer and very experienced. He has won almost all of his fights and has already been world champion. And he is a fair sportsman. That is something I like. I have a lot of respect for him.

  Alexander Povetkin

  Fighting, Champion, World

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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