Words matter. These are the best Pierre de Coubertin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
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.
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought 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.
If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
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.
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.
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
All sports for all people.
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
For me sport was a religion… with religious sentiment.
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.
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
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 important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.