Pierre de Coubertin Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

• All sports for all people.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, People

• For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Improvement, Individual

• All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Equality, Bases

• In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Leadership, Sports, Team

  "The Olympic Idea: Discourses and Essays". Book by Carl Diem, 1970.

• Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Men, Heritage

• Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Class, Youth

• Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Law, Aggravation

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

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Men, Class

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

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Country, People

• Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Play, Roles

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

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Religious, Sentimental

• In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Luxury, Way

• Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Effort, Cultivation

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