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.
JESSE OWENSFind the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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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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When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
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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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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.
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One chance is all you need.
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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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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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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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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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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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