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?
JESSE OWENSWe 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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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.
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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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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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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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One chance is all you need.
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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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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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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 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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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