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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.
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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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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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After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.
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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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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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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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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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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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