It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
JESSE OWENSI 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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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One chance is all you need.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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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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The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
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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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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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