Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

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.

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 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.

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