Pierre de Coubertin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“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 the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.”

“In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.”

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

“Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.”

“If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.”

“Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.”

“The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.”