What is an adage for sportsmanship?

Answer 1

Adages for sportsmanship:

It isn't whether you win or lose that counts, it's how you play the game.

It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results.

To me, True sportsmanship means athletic competition at its finest with all the athletes involved keeping the integrity of the sport intact.

I can't play being mad. I go out there and have fun. It's a game, and that's how I am going to treat it.

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.

Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.

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.

True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!

In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more than that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship. I mean, it's really tough to shake the hand of someone who just beat you, and it's even harder to do it with a smile. If you can learn to do this and push through that pain, you will remember what that moment is like the next time you win and have a better sense of how those competitors around you feel. This experience will teach you a lot on and off the field!

In my day:

No one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. In my day, we competed for the love of the sport. In my day, we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.

In sports, I win because your better. You win because your better. That's it I don't accept excuses.