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.
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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.Pierre de Coubertin
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
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The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
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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.
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For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
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