Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

“Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.”

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

“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.”

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

“All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.”

“All sports for all people.”

“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.”

“All sports for all people. ”

“When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old...”

“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo".”