A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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?
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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One chance is all you need.
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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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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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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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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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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
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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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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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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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