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.
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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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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’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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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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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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