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
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.
mean games hands
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
games olympics world
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
games humanity springtime
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
athlete games olympics
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
struggle winning games
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
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.
sports effort cultivation
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
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.