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.
JESSE OWENS
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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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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One chance is all you need.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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