Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertinwas a French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee. He is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth1 January 1863
CountryFrance
sports effort cultivation
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
effort mind excess
Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.
ambition effort generations
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
thinking vanity effort
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.
soul body doctrine
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
sports religious sentimental
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
ordinary-world games generations
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
sports country people
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
sports law decline
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
sports equality bases
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
inspirational teacher struggle
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
loyalty oath asks
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
sports men heritage
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
sports class youth
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.