54 Quotes by Pierre de Coubertin

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

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.

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.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.