Interest in Sports
Patarkatsishvali was chairman of the Dinamo Tbilisi soccer club. He served as president of the Georgian National Olympic Committee (GNOC), until being impeached on October 9, 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the words interest in, interest and/or sports:
“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”
—Gelett Burgess (1866–1951)
“Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of happiness are greater if one has multiple areas of interest and involvement. To juggle is to diminish the risk of depression, anxiety, and unhappiness.”
—Faye J. Crosby (20th century)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)