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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

Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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Life Need Practice 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
Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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Believe Goodness Start Yourself
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Character Difference Fast
I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
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Decision Forever Myself Stay
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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Hands Home Job Myself Oneself Reward
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Athletics Born Friendship Gold Reality
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
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
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 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 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
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
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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Animal Right Secret Start Weapon
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
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

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