More From Pierre de Coubertin
- "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."
- "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."
- "All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."
More In Sports
- "I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can’t be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn’t discuss media coverage."― Sachin Tendulkar
- "If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf."― Bob Hope
- "Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts."― Phil Jackson