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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.

Jesse Owens

The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred’s ear.
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Animal Right Secret Start Weapon
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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Decision Forever Myself Stay
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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Black Fingers Money Power Time Yourself
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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Best Black Man Myself Oppression Word
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 Enough Hands Kind Morning Myself People
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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Future God Gratitude Myself See
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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Game Himself Myself Play Run
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 Myself Story
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
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Character Difference Fast
I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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Love Myself Power Run Sports Yourself
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 Yourself
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
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 Beyond Destination End Leadership Road
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship Reward

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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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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