The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
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.
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... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
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 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.
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
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.
The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
