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 OWENS
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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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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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I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn’t a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
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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 secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred’s ear.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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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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