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Rugby Union Match Official Inspirational Quotes (40)

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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
Pierre de Coubertin
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The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
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Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
Pierre de Coubertin
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In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.
Pierre de Coubertin
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But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.
Alan Lewis
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Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre de Coubertin
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The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
Pierre de Coubertin
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If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
Alan Lewis
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In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
Pierre de Coubertin
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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
Pierre de Coubertin
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I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
Alan Lewis
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Swifter, higher, stronger.
Pierre de Coubertin
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I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.
Alan Lewis
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Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
Pierre de Coubertin
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The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
Pierre de Coubertin
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