Frasi di Jesse Owens

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Jesse Owens

Data di nascita:12. Settembre 1913
Data di morte:31. Marzo 1980
Altri nomi:Jesse James Cleveland Owens

James Cleveland Owens, detto Jesse , è stato un atleta statunitense, noto per la sua partecipazione alle Olimpiadi del 1936, svoltesi a Berlino, dove vinse quattro medaglie d'oro e fu la stella dei Giochi.

Frasi Jesse Owens

„Non aveva niente da perdere.... quindi ha vinto tutto“

— Jesse Owens

„Un'intera vita di allenamenti per soli 10 secondi.“

— Jesse Owens

Sulla vita

„Le amicizie nate sul campo durante le gare sono le vere medaglie d'oro in una competizione. I premi col tempo si consumano, mentre le amicizie non si ricoprono di polvere.“

— Jesse Owens

„Ho sempre amato correre: è un qualcosa che puoi fare contando soltanto su te stesso, sulla forza dei tuoi piedi e sul coraggio dei tuoi polmoni.“

— Jesse Owens

„Un'opportunità è tutto ciò di cui hai bisogno.“

— 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

„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

„When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.“

— Jesse Owens

„It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II.“

— Jesse Owens

„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... the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.“

— Jesse Owens

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

— 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

„After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.“

— Jesse Owens

„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.“

— Jesse Owens

„I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.“

— Jesse Owens

„Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.“

— Jesse Owens

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