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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

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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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Body Fight Hard Time Time
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 Play Run
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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Man Thinking
I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

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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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Love Power Run Sports
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 Stay
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Athletics Born Friendship Gold Reality
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
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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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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Animal Right Secret Start Weapon
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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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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President
We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn’t have steak? Who had steak?
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Food Fun Problem
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
After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.
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Home Job Oneself Reward
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 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 Oppression Word
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
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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Possible Sports Time
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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Dedication Determination Discipline Dream Effort Reality

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

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