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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
-
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
-
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
-
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
-
I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
-
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
-
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
-
My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
-
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
-
I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
-
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
-
I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
-
If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
-
Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
-
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
-
Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
-
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
-
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
-
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
-
Time and tide wait for no man.
-
I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
-
Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.
-
I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel.
-
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
