Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
JESSE OWENSRunning is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
JESSE OWENSA lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
JESSE OWENSThe 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.
JESSE OWENSOne chance is all you need.
JESSE OWENSHe 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.
JESSE OWENSI 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.
JESSE OWENSI’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping.
JESSE OWENSHitler didn’t snub me – it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.
JESSE OWENSWe all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
JESSE OWENSIf you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
JESSE OWENSThe 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.
JESSE OWENSIf you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
JESSE OWENSI let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
JESSE OWENSI always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
JESSE OWENSThe only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
JESSE OWENSIt’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
JESSE OWENS