The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

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

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

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

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.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

All sports for all people.