Avery Brundage quotes
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“Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.”
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“For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.”
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“Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.”
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“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.”
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“The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.”
-- Avery BrundageSource : "The Movement To Boycott The Berlin Olympics Of 1936", www.ushmm.org.
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“As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.”
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“The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.”
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“The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.”
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“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.”
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“The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.”
-- Avery Brundage
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