Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.
I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.
Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
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 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.
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
