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A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its peop...  
All sports for all people.  
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.  
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all form...  
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.  
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 wi...  
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.  
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.  
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic...  
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul...  
Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind h...  
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effor...  
Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities o...  
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.  
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can ne...  
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical ...  
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.  
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.  
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is ...  
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happines...  
The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champio...  
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.  
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to ha...  
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, ...  
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but takin...  
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted t...  
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of...  
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual a...  
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the r...  
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.  
The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours...  
The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, ...