"As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work."

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Avery Brundage

#Sports Quotes #Playing Sports Quotes

“But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.”

Source : Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.283, Penguin
“Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!”
“An important purpose for mortality is to help us learn to recognize and to choose the positive even though the negative more fully surrounds us. We make this choice consciously or unconsciously in every moment of the day, and these millions of tiny choices create the foundation of our identity. We are what we think. We are what we say, what we do, what we fill our lives with. Ultimately, every being creates himself by these countless, crucial choices.”
“Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world”
“I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.
“My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.”
“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
“Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's - but this does not necessarily include everything that he says is his.”

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