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Pierre de Coubertin [1863-1937] French

Rank: 101
Leader, Historian

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.

Sports, Equality, Good, Happiness, History, Power, Respect

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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.		101
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.		102
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.		103
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.	Good	104
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.	Happiness, Power	105
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.	History	106
Swifter, higher, stronger.		107
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.	Sports	108
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.	Sports	109
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.	Respect	110
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.		111
The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.		112
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.	Sports	113
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.	Equality, Sports	114
All sports for all people.	Sports	115
Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.		116
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.	Sports	117
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.	Sports	118
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.		119
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.	Sports	120
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.	Sports	121
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.	Sports	122
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.		123
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.	Sports	124
If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.		125
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.		126
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.		201
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.		202
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.		203
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.		204

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