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.
JESSE OWENSAfter 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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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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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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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One chance is all you need.
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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 fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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