Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

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

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.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

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.