Culture Quote by Juan Antonio Samaranch

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect…

— Pierre de Coubertin

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation…

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving…

— George Will

“Philosophy is not a spectator sport.”

— Nigel Warburton

The essence of sport is courage.

— Thomas McGuane

“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is practised by…

— Eamon Dunphy

The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body,…

— George A. Sheehan

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under…

— George Will

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled…

— Lewis Mumford

“Life is not a spectator sport. Build a career as a pioneer and inspirational force of good leading the way for others to follow…

— Germany Kent

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

— Jack Nicholson