Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
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Winning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts.
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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
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The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
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The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
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If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
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Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
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Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
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Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
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Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
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The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
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In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.
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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
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A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.
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In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.
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The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
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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.
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In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
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A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
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The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
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The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
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I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.
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The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
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Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.