All Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
Pierre de Coubertin
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Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
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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.
Pierre de Coubertin
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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.
Pierre de Coubertin
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The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
Pierre de Coubertin
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All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
Pierre de Coubertin
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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.
Pierre de Coubertin
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Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
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Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Pierre de Coubertin
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A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Pierre de Coubertin
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For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Pierre de Coubertin
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