Sports Quotes by Avery Brundage

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

— Avery Brundage

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and…

— Avery Brundage

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…

— Avery Brundage

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

— Avery Brundage

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

— Avery Brundage

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher…

— Avery Brundage

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

— Avery Brundage

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

— Avery Brundage

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

— Avery Brundage

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

— Avery Brundage