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.

- Jesse Owens

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Jesse Owens

One chance is all you need.

- Jesse Owens

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

- Jesse Owens

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.

- Jesse Owens

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

- Jesse Owens

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

- Jesse Owens

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

- 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

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.

- Jesse Owens

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

- Jesse Owens

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

- Jesse Owens