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Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

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

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.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

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

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.