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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Jesse Owens

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
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship Reward
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 only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Inspirational Oneself Victory Yourself
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 Enough Live Man Myself Race
Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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Life Need Practice Yourself
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
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
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Bond Human Relationship Worth
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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Myself Possible Sports Time
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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Hands Home Job Myself Oneself Reward
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
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
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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Myself Ourselves President
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Life Time Training

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

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