Race Quotes by Jesse Owens

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad…

— Jesse Owens

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

— 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…

— Jesse Owens

Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the…

— Jesse Owens

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

— Jesse Owens

The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can…

— Jesse Owens

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

— 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…

— Jesse Owens

“In America anyone can still become someone.”

— 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…

— Jesse Owens

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful…

— 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…

— Jesse Owens

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…

— Jesse Owens

She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed…

— Jesse Owens

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to…

— Jesse Owens