Juan Antonio Samaranch Quotes

#1. I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

Gary Numan

#2. Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#3. Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#4. Sluggish idleness
the nurse of sin.

Edmund Spenser

#5. Those eyes crinkled attractively at the corners as their gorgeous owner threw me a friendly, boyish smile that penetrated my anti-bad-boy force field.

Samantha Young

#6. She [Lady Budd] was dressed in a manner to be described as impregnable, like a long, neat, up-to-date battle-cruiser.

Anthony Powell

#7. Spain is not a racist country.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#8. I'm sorry to bother you," she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't help it.

Joe Hill

#9. A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.

John C. Maxwell

#10. Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

Alice McCall

#11. Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#12. They that do much themselves deny,
Receive more blessings from the sky.

Thomas Creech

#13. Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#14. The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Richard Paul Evans

#15. Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

Sheryl Crow

#16. It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Charles The Bold

#17. In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

Irwin Shaw

#18. I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#19. The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

George Eliot

#20. I don't write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn't set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

Ray Bradbury

#21. The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#22. When I arrived, they had to move out because the landlord allowed dogs but not babies.

George W. Bush

#23. We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

Juan Antonio Samaranch