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

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

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.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.