90 Quotes by Jesse Owens

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

We have no idea what we'll find, really. This area has never been examined. This portion of Mud Creek has never been studied.

If it's clay, it pretty much means it was here before 10,000 B.C.. Most archaeologists don't believe humans were in North America that early.

I always loved running / it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Just ironge the people who tend mock at you

To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.

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.

It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler,