"If you don't try to win you might……" — 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 the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best."
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38 Quotes by Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens has 38 quotes on this site.
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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.
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One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks…
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We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as…
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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country,…
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of…
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Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see…
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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers.…
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It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one…
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I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in…
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After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going…
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The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the…
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More Back Yard Quotes
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one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
— Truman Capote
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Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.
— Unknown Author
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My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was…
— Unknown Author
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Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back…
— Mason Cooley
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Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard.
— Lil Wayne
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard…
— Ioan Gruffudd
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I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.
— Henry Ford
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Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household,…
— William Petersen
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and…
— Agnes Martin
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But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not…
— Stuart Dybek
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You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the…
— Robin Yount
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I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back…
— Jennifer Egan
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