Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. |
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. |
Sport must be accessible to working class youth. |
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. |
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. |
Swifter, higher, stronger. |
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. |
The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion. |
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete. |
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. |
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. |
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit. |
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. |
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. |
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. |