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.
JESSE OWENSThe 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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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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He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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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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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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