The Essential Thing In Life Is Not

Sport Is The Habitual And Voluntary Cultivation Of Intensive Physical Effort.

I Therefore Think That I Was Right In Trying From The Outset Of The Olympic Revival To Rekindle A Religious Awareness.

For Me Sport Was A Religion... With Religious Sentiment.

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.

Success Comprises In Itself The Seeds Of Its Own Decline And Sport Is Not Spared By This Law.