I’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping.
JESSE OWENSI’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.
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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
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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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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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