The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

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 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.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

I think Tim Matheson is amazing and I think he's amazing in this - I haven't seen the film [Killing Reagan] since we shot it, but I think he's just incredible.

I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.