Jesse Owens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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