9 ordspråk av Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage föddes den
28 september 1887 och dog den 8 mei
1975 - of the International Olympic Commitee (IOC) from 1952 to 1972.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
|
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
|
Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
|
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.
|
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
|
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
|
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.
|
They violated one of the basic principals of the Olympic Games. That politics play no part whatsoever in them.
|