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Jesse Owens quotes - page 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.
Jesse Owens
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
Jesse Owens
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
Jesse Owens
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens
It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment.
Jesse Owens
She was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count.
Jesse Owens
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.
Jesse Owens
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
Jesse Owens
It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II.
Jesse Owens
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Jesse Owens
Occupation:
American Athlete
Born:
September 12, 1913
Died:
March 31, 1980
Quotes count:
39
Wikipedia:
Jesse Owens
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