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

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

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

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

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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

All sports for all people.

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

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.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

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.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

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

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

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

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

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

The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

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

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

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 are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

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

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

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.

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

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

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.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.