Hitler didn’t snub me – it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.
JESSE OWENSThe only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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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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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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The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss 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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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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