The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

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 pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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