Avery Brundage Quotes

"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

"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

"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music."
-Avery Brundage

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

"They violated one of the basic principals of the Olympic Games. That politics play no part whatsoever in them."
-Avery Brundage

"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

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