Quotes by Pierre de Coubertin

About Pierre de Coubertin:

Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history.
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The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

Pierre de Coubertin

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

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The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

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

Pierre de Coubertin

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

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Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

Pierre de Coubertin

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

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In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ...

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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

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

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The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

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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.

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

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Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

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

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Author Bio

  • NamePierre de Coubertin
  • DescriptionFounder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
  • BornJanuary 1, 1863
  • DiedSeptember 2, 1937
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionHistorian; Educationist; Teacher; Sportsperson; Writer