Baron Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

• Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

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• Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

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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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• Swifter, higher, stronger.

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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 ideal will die.

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

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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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• Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

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• All sports for all people.

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

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Baron Pierre de Coubertin (31)

Birth:	1st January, 1863
Death:	2nd December, 1937
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Politician

About

Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee. He 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. Pierre was the last person to the family name. In the words of his biographer John MacAloon, The last of his lineage, Pierre de Coubertin was the only member of it whose fame would outlive him. Coubertin won the gold medal for literature at the 1912 Summer Olympics for his poem Ode to Sport.

 

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