The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
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 the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.