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Jesse Owens Quotes: We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?
         

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?


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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.



Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.



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 where it's at.

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 where it's at.



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.

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.



The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.



Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.



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One chance is all you need.



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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.



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



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

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





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He caught me up on wings of light, and showed me the realms of his creation, the glittering gemstones paving his heaven. He left my body weak and spent, my spirit gorged with honey.



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I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.



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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.



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The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.



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I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.



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A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.



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All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.



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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.



It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.




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