A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
JESSE OWENSOnly by Gods grace have I made it to see today and only by Gods grace will I ever see tomorrow.
More Jesse Owens Quotes
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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 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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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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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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I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.
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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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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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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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People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.
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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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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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One chance is all you need.
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We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn’t have steak? Who had steak?
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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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