Jesse Owens Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Jesse Owens Quotes and Sayings
- 1
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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- 2
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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- 3
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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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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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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- 8
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
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- 9
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
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- 10
One chance is all you need.
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- 11
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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- 12
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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- 13
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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