I’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping.
JESSE OWENSAwards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers – weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there’s money inside. There’s where the power lies.
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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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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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