Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

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.

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.

Cannot admit that darkness exists because humanity itself exists, and that to erase one, you erase the other.

I always wanted to make people feel something.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

It's not about women acting like man, it's about women acting like woman and being sucsessful