Jesse Owens was one of the most famous athletes in the world. He was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Owens won four gold medals, which is still a record for any Olympian.
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Nationality:
American
Born:
September 12, 1913
Died:
March 31, 1980
Education:
Ohio State University, Fairmont Junior High School, East Technical High School
Height:
5 Ft 11 In
Weight:
165 Lb
Hide Medal Record Men’s Track And Field Representing The United States Olympic Games 1936 Berlin 100 M 1936 Berlin 200 M 1936 Berlin 4×100 M Relay 1936 Berlin Long Jump:
To a sprinter, the hundred–yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. — Jesse Owens
Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow. — Jesse Owens
The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads–in the end–to the best within us. — Jesse Owens
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany. — Jesse Owens
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
I always loved running…. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens
We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn’t have steak? Who had steak? — Jesse Owens
I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever. — Jesse Owens
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens
If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. — Jesse Owens
Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free. — Jesse Owens
If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best. — Jesse Owens
Hitler didn’t snub me–it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram. — Jesse Owens
One chance is all you need. — Jesse Owens
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
He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking. — Jesse Owens
Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need. — Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens was an American athlete.
He is best remembered for his performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won gold medals in the long jump, the 100- and 200-metre dashes, and the 4 x 100-metre relay.
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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. — Jesse Owens
In America anyone can still become someone. — Jesse Owens
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness. — Jesse Owens
Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black… But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn’t buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under. — Jesse Owens
It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it. — Jesse Owens
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself. — Jesse Owens
It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards. — Jesse Owens
We all have dreams. in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self–discipline, and effort. — Jesse Owens
Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it. — Jesse Owens
People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you. — Jesse Owens
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close. — Jesse Owens
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. — Jesse Owens
I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals. — Jesse Owens
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
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world. — Jesse Owens
I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over. — Jesse Owens
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. — Jesse Owens
I’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens
