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
sports mistake athlete
Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.
sports dog athlete
It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
quilts men african-american
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.
practice race giving
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
three nine yards
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.
men thinking hands
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.
sports fun athlete
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?
gold four gold-medals
I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.
horse gun animal
The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.
running character differences
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
country new-york cities
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.
motivational friendship running
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
ties humanness-is humans
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
people lucky generations
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.