Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
JESSE OWENSThe 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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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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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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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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’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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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One chance is all you need.
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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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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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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?
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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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