I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
JESSE OWENSI fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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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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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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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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