54 Quotes by Pierre de Coubertin

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

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.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.