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.
JESSE OWENSAwards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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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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One chance is all you need.
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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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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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I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
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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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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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The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
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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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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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.
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It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere – one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.
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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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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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