Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

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

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

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

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

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.

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