The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

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.

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.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.

A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

Never forget to stop and drink the beauty of roses to get drunk for a few moments of life.

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter