Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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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I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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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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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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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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One chance is all you need.
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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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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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He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.
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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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Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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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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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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