A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Stephen Leacock

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn Davies

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
John E. Walker

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.
Joan Sutherland

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
Pierre de Coubertin

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery Brundage

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.
Guy Forget