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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.

Jesse Owens

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Life Time Training
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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Beyond Freedom Joy Reality Run
It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
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Animal Attachment Death Dog Time
If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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Inspirational Win Yourself
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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Future God Gratitude Myself See
Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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Believe Goodness Start Yourself
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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Best Black Man Myself Oppression Word
One chance is all you need.
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Chance Need One Liner Oneself Yourself
The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers – weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there’s money inside. There’s where the power lies.
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Black Fingers Money Power Time Yourself
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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Myself Possible Sports Time
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Character Difference Fast
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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Decision Forever Myself Stay
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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Game Himself Myself Play Run
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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Best Life Live Man Oneself Time Training
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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Eat Gold Myself Reward

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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