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Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the french leader Pierre de Coubertin on topics like olympic, sport, life

  • 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.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on conquering
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  • Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this motto

    — Pierre de Coubertin on sports
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  • The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on motivational
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  • The important thing in life is not victory but combat;

    it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on combat
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  • All sports for all people.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on sports
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  • The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on athlete
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  • Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on evoking
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  • Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on absence
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  • 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.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on ages
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  • For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on religion
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  • Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on accessible
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  • In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on considered
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  • About Pierre de Coubertin

    Name Pierre de Coubertin
    Quotes 30 quotations
    Nationality French
    Profession Leader
    Birthday October 16
    About Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French educationalist and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history.
    Top topics olympic, sport, life, important, sports
  • Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on comprises
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  • In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on loyalty
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  • Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on distinctions
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  • The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on age
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  • 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.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on guide
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  • All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on basis
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  • If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on brothers
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  • The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on admitted
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  • A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on country
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  • The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on celebration
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  • Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on balanced
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  • Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on based
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  • For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on improvement
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  • Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on classes
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  • The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on champion
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  • The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on balance
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  • Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on cultivation
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  • The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

    — Pierre de Coubertin on compete
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