International Quote by Avery Brundage Download Open image “Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.” — Avery Brundage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare International Music Phenomenon Science Sports
Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth. — Jack Kent Cooke Copy Share Image
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues. — John Skipper Copy Share Image
Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best… — Emerson Fittipaldi Copy Share Image
Sport is something that crosses all boundaries and can really bring people together. — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
Sport is an art: it has incredible appeal everywhere on this earth, and it fills so many human hearts with passion that it's impossible… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real. — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies. — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation. 2. Man-made wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. 3. Exposure to man-made electricity. 4. Eclipsing of the Sun by the International Space Station (ISS), satellites, airplanes and jet aircraft contrails (chemtrails). 5. Eating food forced grown using… — Steven Magee Copy Share
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“When the ancient Romans would conquer a new place or a new people, they would leave the language and the customs in tact – they would even let the conquered people rule themselves in most cases, appointing a governor to maintain a foothold in the region.” Wilson leaned against the whiteboard as he spoke, his posture relaxed, his hands clasped… — Amy Harmon Copy Share
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were… — Danny Baker Copy Share
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to… — Everett Case Copy Share Image
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people.… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
