One chance is all you need.
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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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 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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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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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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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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When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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