The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred’s ear.
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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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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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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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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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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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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It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere – one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.
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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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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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The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
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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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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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