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.
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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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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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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One chance is all you need.
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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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