Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
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The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.Pierre de Coubertin
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
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.
Pierre de Coubertin
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre de Coubertin
If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
Pierre de Coubertin
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
Pierre de Coubertin
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