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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Jesse Owens

I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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Love Myself Power Run Sports Yourself
I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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Body Fight Hard Time Myself Time
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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Animal Bad Enough Live Man Myself Race
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Life Time Training
I 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.
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Best Black Man Myself Oppression Word
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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Best Himself Oneself Reward Thrill Win Yourself
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship Reward
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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Myself Ourselves President
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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Beyond Freedom Joy Reality Run
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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Future God Gratitude Myself See
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Inspirational Oneself Victory Yourself
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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Food Fun Problem
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Bond Human Relationship Worth
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Character Difference Fast
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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Hands Myself Sarcastic

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

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