Only by Gods grace have I made it to see today and only by Gods grace will I ever see tomorrow.
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 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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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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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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.
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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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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 secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred’s ear.
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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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