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

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

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

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.