Sportsman Quotes

I wanted to do as much of the action work as I could, so that the audience can see it`s me and it`s real. I feel like I became a sportsman of sorts, and that meant acquiring injuries and carrying on and bashing through to the next level of pain. Although the stunt team did fantastic work to make sure that everything was as safe as possible, if you don`t get bruised playing Bond, you`re not doing it properly. I had black eyes, I had cuts, I was bruised, I had muscle strains, and I took a lot of painkillers. But it was part of the job. As much as I was hurt, the stuntmen were in much more pain.

It`s one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don`t try to knock them down. And that`s a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It`s so patriotic!

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.

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

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.

He was a very good sportsman. It was great fun to compete against him. He was always fair. I`m sorry I won`t be able to compete against him again.