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?
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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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One chance is all you need.
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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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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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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere – one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.
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