Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
JESSE OWENSFor a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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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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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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It 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.
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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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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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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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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.
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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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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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