Athlete Quote by Pierre de Coubertin Download Open image “The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.” — Pierre de Coubertin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Exhaltation Individual Games Individual Individual Athlete Olympic Olympic games Olympics Sports
It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games. — Abhinav Bindra Copy Share Image
The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world. — Sasha Cohen Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're… — Tina Maze Copy Share Image
When you think of the Olympics, you think of wrestling. It was a marquee event in ancient Greece and in the modern Games. After… — Cael Sanderson Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody. — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
Medal in Olympics is not small thing. There is a need to develop sportsperson especially athletes from the grass-root level to win medal in… — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are a global celebration of our hopes, our ideals and our values. — Laurel Hubbard Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as… — Pierre de Coubertin 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
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
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