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"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."
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"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
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"Is it not necessary to eat? Is it not necessary to go to the toilet? They are necessary. In the same way, money is also required. Just as one does not have to think about going to the toilet; it happens automatically, in the same way, money comes without you having to think about it."
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"For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk."
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"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord."
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"We must have hope or starve to death."
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"I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative."
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"I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me."
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"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."
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"Necessity never made a good bargain."
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"Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity."
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"All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."
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"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
Happiness

"The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them."
Sports

"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."
Life

"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport."
People

"The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity."
Sports

"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."
History

"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."
Age

"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment."
Religion

"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
Life
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