21 Quotes by Pierre Coubertin

• The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
• Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
• The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
• Swifter, higher, stronger.
• The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
• The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
• Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
• Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
• The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
• All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
• Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
• Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
• All sports for all people.
• 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.
• In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
• In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
• Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
• Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
• If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

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