Travis Tygart quotes

“The Olympics unite the world and inspire us to be a better version of ourselves. The competitions motivate the spectators, and the athletes' message is: You should have more confidence in your ability to achieve things, you should dream more.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“Being skeptical is part of my job, to question every amazing achievement. That's always there. But I am also capable of turning down the cynicism. The basic idea of sports, the fairness, the competition, remains a beautiful thing.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“Something is swelling up among our athletes. Many of them are frustrated, everywhere in the world, and they are looking for a way out. Either they start doping themselves, or they give up the sport. Or else they stand up and demand that those who have the power to should change the system.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“I have never heard a doping offender say he felt good about doing it. Not a single one. Some athletes justify their actions by saying it enabled them to afford a bigger house or a better car. But they are never really happy. They know that they are not real winners.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“It's not enough to just test athletes. The athletes themselves need to fight for their right to compete against clean athletes.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“In order to expose a system though, you need whistleblowers.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.”
-- Travis Tygart

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“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”

“Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.”

“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.”

“Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,”

Source : "Tendulkar hogs limelight in Sydney". www.cnn.com. January 3, 2004.

“I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.”

“I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.”

“An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.”

“There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.” P. 38-39”

“The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.”

“This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.”

Source : "40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering". Book by Alice Waters, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.