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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More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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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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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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One chance is all you need.
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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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