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Pierre de Coubertin

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

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

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Pierre de Coubertin
"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."
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"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."
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Pierre de Coubertin
"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."
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"May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure."
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"The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity."
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Pierre de Coubertin
"Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."
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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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"For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement."
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Pierre de Coubertin
"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."
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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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