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

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

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

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

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.

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.