Quotes by Jesse Owens

• One chance is all you need.
• I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
• 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.
• Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
• 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.
• For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
• Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
• Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
• 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.
• A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
• The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
• Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
• Success is not defined by how high you climb, but by the depth of your roots.