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Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

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Pierre De Coubertin

Profession: Historian
Nationality: French

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All sports for all people.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

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.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

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.

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

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

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.

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