For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
JESSE OWENSAlthough I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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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 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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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 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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