Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

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

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

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

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.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

All sports for all people.