Pierre de Coubertin föddes den 1 januari1863 och dog den 2 september 1937 - primarily responsible for the revival of the Olympic Games in 1894. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
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 brothers with his words and presence.
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.
Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
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