Quotes from Jesse Owens

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

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

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

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.

One chance is all you need.

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