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.
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.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.
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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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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 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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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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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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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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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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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