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.

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.

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

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

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

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.