"The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation……" — Pierre de Coubertin

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• The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
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• A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
• I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say… — Tyra Banks
• The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think… — Roger Bannister
• I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and… — Roger Bannister
• If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always… — Roger Bannister

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