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" A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. "
Feel
Personal
People
" All sports for all people. "
People
All People
Sports
" All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. "
Treated
Sports
Basis
" For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. "
Possible
Inner
Improvement
" For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. "
Religion
Me
Sport
" Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. "
Holding
Olympic Games
History
" If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence. "
Competition
Words
Presence
" In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. "
Sport
Object
Luxury
" 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. "
Beautiful
Strong
View
" In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty. "
One Thing
Only
Loyalty
" 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. "
Humanity
Good
Understanding
" Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will. "
Whole
Body
Qualities
" 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
Life
Joy
" Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. "
Play
Racial
Should
" Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. "
Never
Man
Woman
" Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. "
Voluntary
Effort
Cultivation
" Sport must be accessible to working class youth. "
Youth
Working
Accessible
" Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. "
Men
Must
Heritage
" Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. "
Seeds
Sport
Success
" Swifter, higher, stronger. "
Higher
Stronger
" 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. "
Balance
Day
Happiness
" The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion. "
Were
Champion
Games
" The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete. "
Life
Thing
Triumph
" The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. "
Well
Important
Life
" 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. "
Life
Winning
Well
" The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. "
World
Olympic Games
Games
" The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. "
Celebration
Humanity
Olympic
" The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. "
Individual
Athlete
Games
" 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. "
Great
Life
World
" The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. "
Property
Age
Nor
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