Religion Quote by Pierre de Coubertin Download Open image “For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.” — Pierre de Coubertin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion Religious Sentimental Sentiments Sports
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country… — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
“Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense,… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
Religion is not the biggest part of my life. I'm always playing baseball. But it's certainly a part of it, and having a faith… — Kris Bryant Copy Share Image
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
As a child, I liked to play different type of sport, and I grew up to be an ardent sports fan. I have been… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. — Simon Gray Copy Share Image
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
A better world could be brought about only by better individuals. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
“...the important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete…not victory but combat…not to have vanquished but to have fought well…not winning… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image