I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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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 had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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One chance is all you need.
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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
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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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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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