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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.

Jesse Owens

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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Animal Attachment Death Dog Time
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
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Run Sports Time
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
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Battle Gold Oneself Reward Struggle
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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Game Himself Myself Play Run
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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Best Life Live Man Oneself Time Training
Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.
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Life Need Practice Yourself
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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Myself Ourselves President
I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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Eat Gold Myself Reward
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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Best Black Man Myself Oppression Word
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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Decision Forever Myself Stay
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Life Time Training
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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Dedication Determination Discipline Dream Effort Reality
One chance is all you need.
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Chance Need One Liner Oneself Yourself
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.
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Character Difference Fast
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?
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Country Difference Live Myself Story
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship Reward

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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