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

One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can…

— Jesse Owens

In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too.…

— Jesse Owens

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

— Jesse Owens

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

— Jesse Owens

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of…

— Jesse Owens

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

— Jesse Owens

The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or…

— Jesse Owens

After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap…

— Jesse Owens

The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only…

— 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

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you…

— Jesse Owens

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

— Jesse Owens

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

— 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,…

— Jesse Owens

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

— Jesse Owens

“To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then…

— Jesse Owens

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned,…

— Jesse Owens

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus.…

— 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…

— Jesse Owens

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics,…

— Jesse Owens

We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as…

— Jesse Owens

Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but…

— Jesse Owens

One chance is all you need.

— Jesse Owens