Backgrounds Quote by Pierre de Coubertin

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

— Pierre de Coubertin

“The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... this is a true international emblem.”

— Pierre de Coubertin

As an Olympian, I wear that flag and I've gone all over the world. I've represented the United States, so I have a deep…

— Maya Moore

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all…

— Jesse Brown

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in…

— Jesse Jackson

A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.

— Gilbert Baker

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country.…

— Charles Sumner

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs…

— Ambrose Bierce

If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then…

— John Carlos

A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is…

— Gilbert Baker

Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.

— Akiane Kramarik

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

— Evan Sayet