A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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 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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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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