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 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.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

My education taught me a lot, but nothing I needed to learn.

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.