Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
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Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
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The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
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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.
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In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
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