The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

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.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.