Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
JESSE OWENSOne chance is all you need.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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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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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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Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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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 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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