I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
JESSE OWENSHe 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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It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers – weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there’s money inside. There’s where the power lies.
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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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Only by Gods grace have I made it to see today and only by Gods grace will I ever see tomorrow.
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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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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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One chance is all you need.
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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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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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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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