. . . . they didn't only murder 11 athletes and 11 Israelis but they murdered the Olympic dream, a dream that, as much as I know, my father really believed in.“
-- Anouk Spitzer, who never knew her father, murdered Israeli athlete Andre Spitzer

”The tragedy of Munich was a direct onslaught on the Olympic values of internationalism, inclusiveness and respect for diversity. Nothing could have been more inconsistent with these principles than the terrible crimes committed in Munich.“
-- New South Wales Chief Justice Jim Spigelman, upon unveiling a memorial to the slain athletes in Sydney, at the time of the 2000 Summer Games (an event which IOC officials declined to attend)

”Walled off in their dream world, appallingly unaware of the realities of life and death, the aging playground directors who conduct this quadrennial muscle dance ruled that a little blood must not be permitted to interrupt play.“
-- New York Times sports columnist Red Smith

”When we went to Montreal four years after Munich and asked for a memorial we were laughed at. We have suggested the minimum of one minute of silence without even mentioning that they were Israelis or Jews, but nothing happened. Yet we will go on until we succeed.“
-- Ankie Spitzer, widow of murdered athlete Andre Spitzer

”. . . most people in America hadn’t heard the word ‘terrorist’ or ‘terrorism.’ It was a word that had never been used before to describe a person or an occurrence, and so it was completely and totally incongruous. It made no sense at all juxtaposed against the Olympics, which had had political controversy in the past but no history of violence or murder or kidnapping or hostage taking, any of that stuff.“
-- Sean McManus, President of CBS News and CBS Sports, son of ABC sportscaster Jim McKay, who reported on the events at the Munich Games

”. .. .the reason it became a defining moment . . . the Munich Massacre spread fear and intimidation to a global audience because through the medium of television the perpetrators got their message across to a global audience. The Germans could not effectively react to that, and in the deaths that followed, which included the Israeli athletes, we understood that we had a long way to go to deal with what was then a very new threat.“
-- Steven Sloan, political science professor at the University of Oklahoma and co-author of The Historical Dictionary of Terrorism

”I'm proud of what I did at Munich because it helped the Palestinian cause enormously. Before Munich, the world had no idea about our struggle, but on that day, the name of Palestine was repeated all around the world.“
-- last remaining Munich terrorist Jamal Al-Gashay

”It was obvious to me, watching the masked gunmen on the balconies, and later the garish, uninformative spotlights on the runway, what I was seeing: a crime. I was watching bad guys. My first sustained exposure to “the plight of the Palestinians” was to villains acting in their name. . . . I think I'm far from the only American that Munich made a lasting impression on, and to the Palestinian's detriment. Later there was Entebbe and Khartoum and Leon Klinghoffer to reinforce the impression, but it was the sheer squalid cruelty of Munich that set the tone.“
-- Blogger Jim Henley

”No shit.“
-- Ankie Spitzer, widow of murdered athlete Andre Spitzer, after German officials told her they couldn't guarantee her safety if she came to Munich after the massacre.