In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

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

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

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

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

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.

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