Jesse Owens Quotes

"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
(Related: Time, Feet)

"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."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Gold)

"Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Life, Practice)

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

"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."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Dreams, Determination, Dedication, Effort, Order, Reality, Self)

"For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Time, Famous, World)

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

"Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Awards, Friends)

"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
(Related: President)

"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Training)

"The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Worth)

"Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Awards, Competition, Friends, Gold)