Quotes on Olympic Spirit

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

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 struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.