All sports for all people.

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.

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

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

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

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