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Type: Leader Quotes Category: French Leader Quotes Date of Birth: January 1, 1863 Date of Death: September 2, 1937 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Pierre de Coubertin Related Authors: Buddha Mother Teresa Dalai Lama Martin Luther King, Jr. Mohandas Gandhi Napoleon Bonaparte Charles de Gaulle Martin Luther Joseph Stalin |
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A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
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Pierre de Coubertin All sports for all people. Pierre de Coubertin All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. Pierre de Coubertin For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. Pierre de Coubertin For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. Pierre de Coubertin Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. Pierre de Coubertin If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence. Pierre de Coubertin In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. Pierre de Coubertin In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty. Pierre de Coubertin May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. Pierre de Coubertin 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. Pierre de Coubertin Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will. Pierre de Coubertin Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. Pierre de Coubertin Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. Pierre de Coubertin Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. Pierre de Coubertin Sport must be accessible to working class youth. Pierre de Coubertin Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. Pierre de Coubertin Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. Pierre de Coubertin Swifter, higher, stronger. 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 |
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