For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
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The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.Avery Brundage
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
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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.
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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.
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Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
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The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
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