Quotes Pierre de Coubertin

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority o...

All sports for all people....

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality....

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions o...

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner im...

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment....

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history....

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his b...

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object....

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loya...

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may t...

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy foun...

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the q...

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport....

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its abse...

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive...

Sport must be accessible to working class youth....

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social clas...

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and...

Swifter, higher, stronger....

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of th...

The Games were created for the glorification of the individu...

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete...

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is...

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to ma...