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“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ”
― Jesse Owens

“Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.”
― Jesse Owens

“One chance is all you need.”
― Jesse Owens

“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.”
― Jesse Owens, Jesse: The man who outran Hitler

“I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”
― Jesse Owens

“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.”
― Jesse Owens

“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.”
― Jesse Owens

“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?”
― Jesse Owens

“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.”
― Jesse Owens

“I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.”
― Jesse Owens

“Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.”
― Jesse Owens

“It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.”
― Jesse Owens

“I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”
― Jesse Owens

“In America anyone can still become someone.”
― Jesse Owens

“To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.”
― Jesse Owens

“Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”
― Jesse Owens

“The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.”
― Jesse Owens

“For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.”
― Jesse Owens

“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”
― Jesse Owens

“If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.”
― Jesse Owens

“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.”
― Jesse Owens

“adrenalin”
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