All Jesse Owens Quotes
- 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… All
- 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. Hands
- Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it. All
- One chance is all you need. All
- Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need. All
- For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world. Entire
- Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. Awards
- The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness. Beings
- I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up. Air
- If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. Advice
- 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… Always Loved
- 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… Ancient
- In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with… All