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Olympic Hero Quotes

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Jesse Owens
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself â€� the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us â€� that’s where it’s at.”
Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens
“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.”
Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens
“Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.”
Jesse Owens

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

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

Jesse Owens
“The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.”
Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens
“For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.”
Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens
“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”
Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens
“If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.”
Jesse Owens

“Louie never left himself a moment to think of the war. "I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled," he said later, "and I just wanted to keep being filled.:”
Laure Hillenbrand

“I think we all realized that making the Olympic team could be harder than winning team gold at the Games itself.”
Aly Raisman, Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything