Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
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.
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement
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.