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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
— Pierre De Coubertin
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
— Pierre De Coubertin
A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
— 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
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Olympism ... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
— Pierre De Coubertin
All sports for all people.
— Pierre De Coubertin
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
— Pierre De Coubertin
For me sport was a religion ... with religious sentiment.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
— Pierre De Coubertin
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.
— Pierre De Coubertin
When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old ...
— Gaetano De Coubertin
If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
— Pierre De Coubertin
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
— Pierre De Coubertin
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
— Pierre De Coubertin