Determination Dedication Quotes by Jesse Owens

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• People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.
• One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can…
• We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as…
• When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I…
• It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics,…
• Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.
• The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only…
• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries…
• It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only…
• I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air…
• After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap…

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