Jesse Owens Quotes

• Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.

  Jesse Owens

  Topics in Uncategorized
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  The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

  Jesse Owens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Worth

• 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

  Topics in Dedication, Effort

  Tags in Into, Self-Discipline, Awful, Dreams, Takes, Make, Reality, Come, Order, Lot, Determination

• 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

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

  Jesse Owens

• Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.

  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

• A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

  Topics in Sports

• If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.

  Jesse Owens

  Tags in Olympic

• 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

• One chance is all you need.

  Jesse Owens

  Tags in Olympic

• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

  Jesse Owens

  Tags in Olympic

• Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Topics in Friendship

Jesse Owens (13)

Birth:	12th September, 1913
Death:	31st March, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Athlete

About

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama, USA. He was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist (100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 × 100 meter relay) in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Ohio State University. The Jesse Owens Award is USA Track and Field's highest accolade for the year's best track and field athlete. In 1976, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford. Two U.S. postage stamps have been issued to honor Owens, one in 1990 and another in 1998.

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