Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

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Pierre de Coubertin

Profession : Leader

Birth : January 1, 1863

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

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

Pierre de Coubertin

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.

Pierre de Coubertin

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

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

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The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

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

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

Pierre de Coubertin

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

Pierre de Coubertin