Avery Brundage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
-- Avery Brundage

#Sports #Entertainment
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

#Art #Games #Long
Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
-- Avery Brundage

#Sports #Phenomenon
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 competitions for all young people.
-- Avery Brundage

#Sports #Mean #Games
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.
-- Avery Brundage

#Athlete #Games #Politician
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
-- Avery Brundage

#Sports #Playing Sports
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
-- Avery Brundage

#Race #Movement #Injustice
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, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
-- Avery Brundage

#Sports #Eye #Games
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 right.
-- Avery Brundage

#Athlete #Games #Greek
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
-- Avery Brundage

#Inspirational #Men #Yards

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