90 Quotes by Jesse Owens

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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