In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

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.

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

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.