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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.

Jesse Owens

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
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
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
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
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
I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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Eat Gold Myself Reward
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?
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Country Difference Live Myself Story
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
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Life Time Training
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Bond Human Relationship Worth
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Character Difference Fast
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
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Person Time World
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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Battle Gold Oneself Reward Struggle
One chance is all you need.
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Chance Need One Liner Oneself Yourself

I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.

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