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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.

~Pierre De Coubertin

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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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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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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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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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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Leader

Born: January 1st, 1863

Died: September 2nd, 1937

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