Jesse Owens Messages

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

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

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.