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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.

Jesse Owens

I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
JESSE OWENS

Decision Forever Myself Stay
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
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Best Life Live Man Oneself Time Training
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
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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Battle Gold Oneself Reward Struggle
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
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
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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Myself Possible Sports Time
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Inspirational Oneself Victory Yourself
People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
JESSE OWENS

Best People Performance See Yourself
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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Bright Enough Hands Kind Morning Myself People
I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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Eat Gold Myself Reward
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
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.
JESSE OWENS

Hands Home Job Myself Oneself 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

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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