The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers – weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there’s money inside. There’s where the power lies.
JESSE OWENSFind the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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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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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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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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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
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If 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.
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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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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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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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