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Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

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Pierre De Coubertin

Profession: Historian
Nationality: French

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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.

All sports for all people.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

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.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

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

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

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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

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 most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

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