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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.

Jesse Owens

I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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Body Fight Hard Time Myself Time
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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Animal Attachment Death Dog Time
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
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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Athletics Born Friendship Gold Reality
I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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Eat Gold Myself Reward
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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Best Beyond Destination End Leadership Road
If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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Inspirational Win Yourself
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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Beyond Freedom Joy Reality Run
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship Reward
Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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Life Need Practice Yourself
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
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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Best Himself Oneself Reward Thrill Win Yourself
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Inspirational Oneself Victory Yourself
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
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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Athlete Learning Myself Politics Purpose Victory
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

Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.

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