Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
JESSE OWENSIt’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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It 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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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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Hitler didn’t snub me – it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.
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The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers – weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there’s money inside. There’s where the power lies.
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One chance is all you need.
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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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