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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.

Jesse Owens

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
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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Appearance Himself Job Myself People Responsibility See
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Person Time World
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’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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Game Himself Myself Play Run
Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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Life Need Practice Yourself
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Inspirational Oneself Victory Yourself
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Life Time Training
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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Athlete Learning Myself Politics Purpose Victory
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
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 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.
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Inspirational Win Yourself
I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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Eat Gold Myself Reward
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship Reward
People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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Best People Performance See Yourself

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