Bad Sportsmanship Quotes

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. ~ Chili Davis

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. ~ Mickey Mantle

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out. ~ John Podhoretz

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship. ~ Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

In any case, it is difficult not to think that if Serena lost context by abandoning all rules of civility, it could be because her body, trapped in a racial imaginary, trapped in disbelief - code for being black in America - is being governed not by the tennis match she is participating in but by a collapsed relationship that had promised to play by the rules. Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context - randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out "I swear to God!" is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship. Two ~ Claudia Rankine

The duke nudged his ball a bit forward from the rest of the pile. "You do realize," he said to no one in particular, "that I have never played Pall Mall before?"
"Just give the ball a good whack in that direction, darling," Daphne said, pointing to the first wicket.
"Isn't that the last wicket?" Anthony asked.
"It's the first."
"It ought to be the last."
Daphne's jaw jutted out. "I set up the course, and it's the first."
"I think this might get bloody," Edwina whispered to Kate.
The duke turned to Anthony and flashed him a false smile. "I believe I'll take Daphne's word for it."
"She did set up the course," Kate cut in.
Anthony, Colin, Simon, and Daphne all looked at her in shock, as if they couldn't quite believe she'd had the nerve to enter the conversation.
"Well, she did," Kate said.
Daphne looped her arm through hers. "I do believe I adore you, Kate Sheffield," she announced.
"God help me," Anthony muttered.
The duke drew back his mallet, let fly, and soon the orange ball was hurtling along the lawn.
"Well done, Simon!" Daphne cried out.
Colin turned and looked at his sister with disdain. "One never cheers one's opponents in Pall Mall," he said archly.
"He's never played before," she said. "He's not likely to win."
"Doesn't matter."
Daphne turned to Kate and Edwina and explained, "Bad sportsmanship is a requirement in Bridgerton Pall Mall, I'm afraid."
"I'd ga ~ Julia Quinn

We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation. ~ Eric Hyman

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from. ~ Warren Moon

Sports inculcate something in you that no institution, family or friendship can. A quality that eventually emanate from you, something called Sportsmanship. ~ Sandeep Sahajpal

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching. ~ Bob Ley

Sportsmanship isn't about criticizing the "ONE" who didn't win on "That ONE"day... it's about appreciating and supporting their hard work amidst failures!!! ~ Akansh Malik

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules. ~ Bobby Bowden

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. ~ Sue Wicks

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds. ~ John McGraw

Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential. ~ Francis Ouimet

I was pleased with both games. Our sportsmanship was outstanding. ~ Wade Clark Mackey

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. ~ Jack Nicklaus

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing. ~ Glenn Dobbs

Sportsmanship" had been stretched too far. Like "relativity," it had migrated far afield from its original meaning. It used to refer to the kind of behavior that Lance Armstrong showed Jan Ullrich. But over time the term was stretched to include unimpressive, nonchivalrous behavior, like losing without whining too much or making it through an entire game without assaulting a referee. ~ Chip Heath

It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built. ~ Major Taylor

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

True sportsmanship is ...
Knowing that you need your opponent because without him or her, there is no game.
Acknowledging that your opponent holds the same deep-rooted aspirations and expectations as you.
Knowing that, win or lose, you will walk off the course with pride.
Always taking the high road.
And always, always, always being a good sport. ~ Lorii Myers

There is no such thing as sportsmanship. ~ Terrell Davis

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. ~ Knute Rockne

Be fair. Play hard. ~ Dan Venezia

Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one. ~ David Sedaris

It's because you absolutely love the sport. ~ Nastia Liukin

I like to give opinions, not suggestions ~ John Wooden

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ~ Mark Twain

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords. ~ George Carlin

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"Bad's good. Bad's not bad until your seen doing bad. So bad's good unless your caught doing bad, and that's too bad. ~ Lucee Lovett

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect. ~ Junior Seau

Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is. ~ T.H. White

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ~ Michael Jordan

If it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score? ~ Ron Brackin

Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport. ~ Tommy Hilfiger

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ~ Fred Perry

With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do. ~ Brian Spellman

Bad luck is always in search of followers and it finds them mostly amongst the pessimists. ~ Lamine Pearlheart

Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised. ~ Dean Smith

Harley Grimes might be a bad, bad guy, but I happen to be a bad, bad bitch. ~ Jennifer Estep

Bad words don't exist, but words with bad intentions behind. ~ Roberto Fontanarrosa

There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking. ~ Edward J. Flanagan

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. ~ Amy Hempel

Because sometimes in life, sweetheart. The bad guys win

-Ford 'Blame It on the Pain ~ Ashley Jade

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up. ~ Vince Lombardi

People always have such a hard time believing that robots could do bad things. ~ Rita Stradling

Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously. ~ Babe Ruth

Never borrow the devil's pitchfork for he will surely use it against you. - On Uncomfortable Associations ~ Lamine Pearlheart

I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night. ~ Dara Torres

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing. ~ Emily Saliers

It is possible to be a bad person without anyone else knowing. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. ~ Karen Armstrong

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen ... Except the act of writing. ~ E.L. Doctorow

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect. ~ Andrew Young

There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste! ~ Mel Brooks

I get tired of people talking about 'bad words' and 'bad language'. Bullshit! It's the context that makes them good or bad. ~ George Carlin

For no man is voluntarily bad; but the bad become bad by reason of an ill disposition of the body and bad education, things which are hateful to every man and happen to him against his will. ~ Plato

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news. ~ George Saunders

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you. ~ A. J. Kitt

Don't look for bad people; look for bad systems - ones that incentivize bad behavior and reward poor performance. ~ Anonymous

Nothing has a more profound and long-term degrading effect upon a development project than bad code. Bad schedules can be redone, bad requirements can be redefined. Bad team dynamics can be repaired. But bad code rots and ferments, becoming an inexorable weight that drags the team down. ~ Robert C. Martin

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity. ~ James Ellroy

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it. ~ Richard Armour

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name.
(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.) ~ Salman Rushdie

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable. ~ Agnes Repplier

There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry. ~ Victor Hugo

In most sports, like in tennis, love means nothing. ~ Wyatt Allen

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things. ~ Laz Alonso

I don't think bad people realize they're bad people. I bet they think they're good people who occasionally do bad.
Which begs the question ... how much bad can a good person do before being considered bad? ~ Karen E. Quinones Miller

... He told the green woman to open the bad-word door and he would go and get the bad-word Apprentice himself, seeing as everyone else around him was so bad-word useless. Especially bad-word witches ... - Kaznim ~ Angie Sage

Bad times don't last, bad guys do. ~ Scott Hall

There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. ~ Alton Brown

Its gresham's law in operation is all walks of life and not just money: bad money drives out good money from circulation; bad writers drive out good writers from circulation, bad parents drive out good parents from nuturing, bad politicians drive out good politicians from governance, bad girls drive out good girls from heart, bad teachers drive out good teachers from classes ... But bad emotions drive out good rationality. ~ Aporva Kala

The monkey said, "Bad. Bad, shitty bad. ~ Robert Reed

...(he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away. ~ Lesa Cline-Ransome

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. ~ Gary Gygax

He smirks and cranks his glorious smile up another notch so it's in full HD IMAX. ~ E.L. James

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing. ~ Tom Waits

If you're having a bad day, get on with your job, because you having a bad day can affect everyone around you. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men. ~ Henry Fielding

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If Karma is a thing, then wouldn't wanting someone to experience bad Karma also get YOU bad Karma? ~ Steve Maraboli

We're always taught that bad things happen to bad people and we believe that we're somehow above experiencing a tragedy, but we learned that's all bullshit. ~ Matt Abrams

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself. ~ Aesop

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club. ~ Alison Sweeney

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. ~ Pat Conroy

I won't pick up your bad habits. They look heavy and I've got a bad back. Plus, I have my own bad habits already. ~ Jarod Kintz

Bad news is bad news because it drops your willingness to carry on. ~ Meir Ezra

I am a bad, bad boy. Think Kate will punish me if I tell her how bad I am? ~ Emma Chase

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet. ~ John Ridley

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie. ~ Peter Stormare

A man of bad character punishes his own soul. ~ Al-Ghazali

Many bad days were preceded by a bad night's sleep. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage. ~ Laura Kightlinger