I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
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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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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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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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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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