de Coubertin, Pierre Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Berlin 1936: Games of the XI Olympiad

  1936, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Pierre de Coubertin:

"All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."

"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."

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

"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."

"All sports for all people."

"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort."

"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."

"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment."

"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."

"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport."

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

"Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law."

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

"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."

"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."

"The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete."

"In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty."

"The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them."

"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."