Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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

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

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.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

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.