I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?
Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.
Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games
I'm just happy to be part of the family, the decathlon family.
When you play sports, when you're on a team with people from different walks of life, and you have to look after each other and count on each other, race and all that stuff goes out the window when you are in the locker room.
I believe in pan-Africanism. This means that in many things - the judiciary, sports, economics and trade - we want Africanism to be involved, which is basically more freedom for the people.
In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
I get on with Iniesta very well. It is very easy to get along well with him, just like with all players at the national team.
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.
There's something about the Razorbacks that's unique to Arkansas - I don't know how many states have just one team that the entire state coalesces around. We don't have a pro team, so everybody's into the Razorbacks. Everybody's watching the Razorbacks on Saturday.
This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.
The national team should unite under one flag, leaving out the club stories.
I know tennis is just a game, but it's something that it can actually unite us even more.
All players, whether they're Spanish, French, English, Welsh, want to play football. To play.
Our country has been through some difficult moments recently in terms of its unity. But sport can unite.
Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
All combat sports are connected.
I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the African Cup of Nations - and preferably winning it.
I get the Swansea-Cardiff thing: I was a Swansea player; I loved playing against Cardiff. But when I played for Wales and played with Jason Perry or Nathan Blake, I never saw them as blue and white and me as black and white.
The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.
I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
It's amazing how sports is a way to control the masses. But it also unites people.
The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.
