Pierre de Coubertin Quotes - Page 2

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• The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

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  Games, Humanity, Springtime

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

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  Sports, Religious, Sentimental

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

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  Sports, Men, Class

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• In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

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  Loyalty, Oath, Asks

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

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  Soul, Doctrine, Body

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• Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

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  Sports, Class, Youth

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• The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

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  Color, White, Flags

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

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  Sports, Luxury, Way

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

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  Religious, Thinking, Trying

  "The Olympics, Sports and Religion - Is There a Conflict?". Awake! Magazine, September 8, 2000.

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• 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.

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  Effort, Mind, Excess

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• Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Play, Roles

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

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  Athlete, Games, Olympic Spirit

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

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  Men, Important, Done

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• Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

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  Ambition, Effort, Generations

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

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  Sports, Law, Aggravation

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• 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.

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  Reality, Ideas, Giving

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• 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.

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  Ordinary World, Games, Generations

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

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  Sports, Effort, Cultivation

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