Top 22 Avery Brundage Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Avery Brundage

#1. 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

#2. No, madam, never now. Of course, I did think of it at one time. But it wasn't to be. He had a little flower-shop just down

Katherine Mansfield

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

Avery Brundage

#4. Vishous's chest expanded ... and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached out and repositioned the cross so it once again hung over Butch's heart. You did well, cop. Congratulations, true?

J.R. Ward

#5. 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

#6. Irving Berlin has no place in American music
he is American music.

Jerome Kern

#7. 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

#8. It's ironic. The poorest, most underdeveloped areas of the world are now humanity's last hope. The rest of the world is one huge hell where a handful of scattered survivors are trying to escape.

Manel Loureiro

#9. Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

Joan Didion

#10. I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.

Zen Cho

#11. SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.

Trip Lee

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

Avery Brundage

#14. Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.

Jerry Pate

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

Avery Brundage

#16. I want people to see what's inside my head rather than just looking at me.

FKA Twigs

#17. 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.

Avery Brundage