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

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

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.

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.

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

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.