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

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

The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic;….

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals..

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

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 fundamenta….

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nat….

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

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history..

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

The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence..

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 gre….

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 d….

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

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

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

In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in….

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the str….

The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart. The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word. The important thin….

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age..

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well..