The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
JESSE OWENSI let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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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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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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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 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’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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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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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