One chance is all you need.
JESSE OWENSIf you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?
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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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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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