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Sports Quotes by Pierre de Coubertin
- 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
- A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
- Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
- 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.
- Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
- In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
- Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
- The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
- The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
- All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
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