If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
JESSE OWENSWe 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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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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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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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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