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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.
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One chance is all you need.
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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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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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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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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 lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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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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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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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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