Famous Quotes / Pierre de Coubertin
14 Quotations by Pierre de Coubertin
- 1. A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sp ...
- 2. Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this motto … a motto for people who dare ...
- 3. For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
- 4. For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
- 5. In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
- 6. May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ...
- 7. Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
- 8. Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: ...
- 9. Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a ...
- 10. Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
- 11. Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
- 12. The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the in ...
- 13. The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a ...
- 14. The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... t ...