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

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

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

All sports for all people.

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.