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

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

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

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

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.