American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
Basketball is a non-aggressive game. So when emotions are high, there's a very low chance to get angry or yell. So that's why it never happens out there.
As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.
Democracy wants to win by reason, not by arms or by any other material damage, because, look, I don't have to remind you that I am totally for peace. It is my greatest dream. It was and will remain so.
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
India and Pakistan should fight only in the field of economy.
I don't enjoy hitting people; I enjoy outsmarting them.
Sports is an imitation of war - it is peaceful, without arms, but there is fierce rivalry in it. Sports demonstrate that Russia is a great power.
Commenting on the 2016 Russian doping scandal.
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
