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.
JESSE OWENSA lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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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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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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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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Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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I fought, I fought harder, but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
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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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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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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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