FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.
If you are in your sport for your country, you should be able to go to the Olympic Games and represent your sport for your country bringing people together in the interests of sport. It's a fantastic Olympic ideal, and I uphold it as much as I can.
Victories in sport do more to cement the nation than 100 political slogans.
Declaration to Russian athletes before departing to the 2000 Olympic games.
The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.
Baseball is a great example of the cultural ties between the United States and Cuba and a powerful reminder of the shared experience between people that transcends our difficult history.
I live in Budapest and saw how the football helped the Hungarian people to be happy.