One chance is all you need.
JESSE OWENSThe 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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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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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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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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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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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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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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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After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.
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