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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?

Jesse Owens

I’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping.
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Game Himself Myself Play Run
He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.
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Appearance Himself Job Myself People Responsibility See
The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred’s ear.
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Animal Right Secret Start Weapon
People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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Best People Performance See Yourself
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Best Life Live Man Oneself Time Training
If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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Inspirational Win Yourself
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Inspirational Oneself Victory Yourself
I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn’t a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
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Best Black Man Myself Oppression Word
I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
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Decision Forever Myself Stay
The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
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Best Beyond Destination End Leadership Road
Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
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Beyond Freedom Joy Reality Run
Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
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Hands Myself Sarcastic
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
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Hands Himself Man Myself Thinking
Only by Gods grace have I made it to see today and only by Gods grace will I ever see tomorrow.
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Future God Gratitude Myself See
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Athletics Born Friendship Gold Reality

When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?

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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?

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