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

Jesse Owens

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Inspirational Win

I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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Eat Gold Reward
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 Destination End Leadership Road
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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Dedication Determination Discipline Dream Effort Reality
I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

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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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Love Power Run Sports
It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

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It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.
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Animal Bad Live Man Race
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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Bright Kind Morning People
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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Battle Gold Oneself Reward Struggle
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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Food Fun Problem
I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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Body Fight Hard Time Time
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
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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Country Difference Live Story
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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Freedom Joy Reality Run
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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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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President
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Life 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
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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