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

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.

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.

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

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.

The past does not exist unless you carry the remains of it with you.

Ohh! Wow!! Ohh!! Wow!! Those the only two words you know? Sounds like a dirty movie.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.