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"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
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"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."
Body
"The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity."
Sports
"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport."
People
"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport."
Equality
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."
Life
"Sport must be accessible to working class youth."
Access
"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."
Age
"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."
Family
"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
Life
"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."
Life
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