The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.