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

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.

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

The Olympic Games were created for the exhalation of the individual athlete

All sports for all people

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

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting eel

The important thing in life is not victory but combat it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well