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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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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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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 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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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