For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
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The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
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The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
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The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
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Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
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