Jesse Owens

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality it takes an awful lot of determination dedication self discipline and effort.

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

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

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.

Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing it.

It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

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

In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. It takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how can you lose?

One chance is all you need.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing it.

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.

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

We all have dreams, in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, self-discipline and effort.

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.

Find the good. Its all around you. Find it showcase it and youll start believing in it.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

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.

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

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

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.