Author: Pierre de Coubertin

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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

- Pierre de Coubertin

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

- Pierre de Coubertin

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

- Pierre de Coubertin

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

- Pierre de Coubertin

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

- Pierre de Coubertin

All sports for all people.

All sports for all people.

- Pierre de Coubertin

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.

- Pierre de Coubertin

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

- Pierre de Coubertin

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.

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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