Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

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.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

I've got to continue to work on everything.

What I like is the journey, the year-round struggle to improve.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

An important mentor for me, in terms of teaching me that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things, was probably my football coach. And playing football was one of the first times in my life that I realized nothing is given to you. You have to work really hard.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.