Jesse Owens Quotes
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.
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
If you don`t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody`s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
Life doesn`t give you all the practice races you need.
Find the good. It`s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you`ll start believing in it.
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.
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
One chance is all you need.
If you don`t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody`s back yard.
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.
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
