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Games Quotes by 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.
- 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…
- The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.
- 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,…
- 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…
- The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports…
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