The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
JESSE OWENSThe only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.
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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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