Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
JESSE OWENSRunning 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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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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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 wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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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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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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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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One chance is all you need.
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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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