Jesse Owens Quotes

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

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

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.

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

One chance is all you need.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

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

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

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.