Might Quote by Jesse Owens Download Open image “If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.” — Jesse Owens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hold Olympics Might Olympics Olympics Somebody Somebody Yard Win Hold
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 Copy Share Image
The Olympics are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I've worked so hard to get this far. — MyKayla Skinner Copy Share Image
I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak. — Mark Roberts Copy Share Image
Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part. — Mirai Nagasu Copy Share Image
In the Olympics, you only get one opportunity to bring it all together. If you don't, better luck in four years. — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
I have some really lofty goals that don't even scratch upon the Olympics. — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get… — Lolo Jones Copy Share Image
You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training. — Sonja Henie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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