Gamesmanship Quotes

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

When I was younger I got accused of gamesmanship but I grew out of it.

It's just, some players I don't respect. Just their playing style of basketball. I don't respect it. I feel like it's basically cheating and I don't respect a cheater. If that's your tactic to winning, I don't respect you.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

The best hand always believes in playing by the rules.

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

I'm pretty competitive. I talk a big game - even when I'm going to lose.

There's so much showmanship and gamesmanship involved in politics, it's really not a stretch to imagine an actor getting involved in being a figurehead for a political party. But for myself personally, I just don't think I could do that.

You've got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.

A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

I don't get wrapped up in the politics of going down to win a penalty or getting an opponent sent off.