One chance is all you need.
JESSE OWENSIt dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere – one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
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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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We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn’t have steak? Who had steak?
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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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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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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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It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
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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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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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