It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
JESSE OWENSWe all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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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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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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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?
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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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One chance is all you need.
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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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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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