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Jesse Owens

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.
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Animal Right Secret Start Weapon
People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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Best People Performance See Yourself
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship Reward
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 only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Inspirational Oneself Victory Yourself
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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Food Fun Problem
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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Best Black Man Myself Oppression Word
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Life Time Training
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Person Time World
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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Best Life Live Man Oneself Time Training
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
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
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
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
Hitler didn’t snub me – it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.
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Myself Ourselves President

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