Dick Pound famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.
-- Dick Pound

#Leadership #Important #Looks
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
-- Dick Pound

#Mean #Language #Preoccupation
Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
-- Dick Pound

#America #Achievement #Language
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
-- Dick Pound

#Opportunity #Defining Moments #Arise
I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.
-- Dick Pound

#Winter #Crowds #Olympics
You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.
-- Dick Pound

#Hands #Tactics #Results
For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.
-- Dick Pound

#Ideas #Long
I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC',
-- Dick Pound

#Track #Would Be #Association
Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.
-- Dick Pound

#Cheating #Team #Doctors
Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.
-- Dick Pound

#Wall #Needs #Way

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