Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owenswas an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 games...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth12 September 1913
CityOakville, AL
CountryUnited States of America
running real joy
Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
motivational sports quilts
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
running horse men
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.
running athlete long-ago
I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
sports determination attitude
Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.
godly grace today
Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.
hockey winning advice
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
rights practice games
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.
hands white house
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.
friendship basketball running
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
running over-you victory
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
sports block athlete
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.