Pierre de Coubertin was a famous Leader from France, who lived between January 1, 1863 and September 2, 1937. He/she became 74 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful.
Our collection contains 29 quotes who is written / told by Pierre, under the main topic Sports.
29 Famous quotes by Pierre de Coubertin
"The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them"
"All sports must be treated on the basis of equality"
"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport"
"Swifter, higher, stronger"
"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for"
"For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement"
"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age"
"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well"
"Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law"
"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport"
"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete"
"Sport must be accessible to working class youth"
"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will"
"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment"
"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort"
"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"
"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"
"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history"
"The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete"
"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"
"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes"
"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion"
"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"
"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object"
"The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity"
"In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty"
"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence"
"All sports for all people"
"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"
