I’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping.
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More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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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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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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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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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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