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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.

Jesse Owens

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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Hands Myself Sarcastic
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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Hands Himself Man Myself Thinking
Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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Life Need Practice Yourself
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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Myself Possible Sports Time
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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Animal Bad Enough Live Man Myself Race
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
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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Future God Gratitude Myself See
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
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Person Time World
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 Myself Stay
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
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 Yourself
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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Hands Home Job Myself Oneself Reward
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Character Difference Fast
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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Battle Gold Oneself Reward Struggle
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Bond Human Relationship Worth

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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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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