I’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping.
JESSE OWENSI had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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