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.

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.

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

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.

In matters of love, spread kindness like a flower.

Speaking less and doing more says more.

When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.