Jesse Owens Quotes
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Jesse Owens Quotes & Sayings
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From the depths of your despair your unspoken prayer was heard.
— Charlotte Symonds
I fought, I fought harder ... but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
— Jesse Owens
In America anyone can still become someone.
— Jesse Owens
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
— Alice Walker
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
— Jesse Owens
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
— Jesse Owens
Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.
— Jesse Owens
One chance is all you need.
— Jesse Owens
It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
— Jesse Owens
Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.
— Yuri Bezmenov
People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.
— Jesse Owens
I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
— Jesse Owens
An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.
— E.F. Benson
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
— Jesse Owens
Running is real. It's all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
— Jesse Owens
That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.
— Stephan James
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?
— Jesse Owens
On this roadwhere nobody else travels
autumn nightfall. — Matsuo Basho
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
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
— Jesse Owens
Hitler didn't snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
— Jesse Owens
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
— Jesse Owens
