If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
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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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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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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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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