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

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

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

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

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.