Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

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• The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.
• Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
• Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
• All sports for all people.
• Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
• For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement
• Swifter, higher, stronger.
• 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…
• The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.
• A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
• Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
• Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
• The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical…
• The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is…
• The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is…
• For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
• In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
• In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which…
• Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
• The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it…

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