sportsman quotes

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

- Stephen Butler Leacock
  My Remarkable Uncle.

Nosportsmanwantstokill a foxor thepheasant as Iwant to kill him when I see him doing it.

- George Bernard Shaw
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

But he was never, well, What I call A Sportsman: For forty days He went out into the desert And never shot anything.

- Sir (Francis) Osbert Sitwell
  Of Jesus Christ.'Old Fashioned Sportsmen'.