The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
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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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The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
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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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Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
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