"For too long the world has failed to……" — 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."
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11 Quotes by Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage has 11 quotes on this site.
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As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
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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…
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The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
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The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of…
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The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are…
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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…
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The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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