As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.

my sword reappeared in my pocket.yeah, great timing.now i could attack the walls all i wanted.my cell had no bar, no window, not even a door

For a better world, we need education. nevertheless, more than education, we need people with common sense.

Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop

It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

There is only one universal passion fear.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.