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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

Jesse Owens

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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Animal Right Secret Start Weapon
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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Animal Attachment Death Dog Time
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
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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Best Himself Oneself Reward Thrill Win Yourself
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
I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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Love Myself Power Run Sports Yourself
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Person Time World
People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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Best People Performance See Yourself
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Character Difference Fast
I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn’t a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
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Best Black Man Myself Oppression Word
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship 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
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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Beyond Freedom Joy Reality Run
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Bond Human Relationship Worth
I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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Body Fight Hard Time Myself Time
I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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Eat Gold Myself Reward

I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

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