Quotes by Pierre De Coubertin

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

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The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his...

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Swifter, higher, stronger.

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

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Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

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

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Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be...

#Pierre De Coubertin

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort,...

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May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue...

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

#Pierre De Coubertin