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
race age olympic-spirit
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
hand involves olympic physical view
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.
games olympics world
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
olympics essentials olympic-spirit
The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.
athlete games olympics
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
winning olympics participating
Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.
fighting winning london-olympics
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.
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.
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.