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.”

Pierre de Coubertin

< p>The most important thing in the Olympics is not winning, but participating; the important thing in life is not conquering, but fighting.

----Coubertin

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

- Jesse Owens (American Athlete, 4 time Gold Medalist in Track and Field at the 1936 Olympic Games, 1913-1980)

If you don’t work hard to win, you might as well hold the Olympics in someone’s backyard.

----Jesse Owens, American athlete, won 4 in the 1936 Olympics. track and field gold medal

If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is.

~R.G. Briscow

I think if Hitler and Mussolini had a good bowling game every week in Geneva, things wouldn't be so bad in Europe.

----R.G. Briscow (British politician 1893-1957)

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

~Vince Lombardi

We didn't Lost; just too late to make it back

----Vince Lombardi (1913-1970, American football coach)

The most classic thing is that Coubertin "participates more than winning." "Important"

It is a widely circulated saying of the Olympic movement and the belief of the Olympics.

If it is related to the Beijing Olympics, there are other things

1) One World, The same dream!

One World One Dream

2 Peace·Friendship·Progress

3 Participation is more important than winning

4) Humanities Olympics, Science and Technology Olympics and Green Olympics

5) Winning and losing come second, aiming to participate

6) Sports is peace

7) Faster and higher , stronger