Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
JESSE OWENSI fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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One chance is all you need.
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
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It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
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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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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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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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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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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 had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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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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