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 OWENSIt 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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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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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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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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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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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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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