Jesse Owens Short Quotes

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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.

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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 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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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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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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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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We'd get into these little towns and tell 'em to get out the fastest guy in town and Jesse Owens would spot him ten yards and beat him.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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