A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. |
All sports for all people. |
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. |
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. |
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. |
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. |