All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

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

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

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

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.