James Cleveland Owens, popularly known as Jesse Owens, was an American athlete who specialised in track and field events and is particularly famous for winning 4 gold medals during the 1936 ‘Berlin Olympics’. Owens’ fame rests not only on the fact that he emerged as the most successful competitor at the ‘Berlin Olympics’ but also due to the fact that, as an African-American, he managed to completely humiliate the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, who propagated the ‘Aryan Master Race’ theory. Owens had been a gifted athlete right from the time that he was a student at Fairmount Junior High School and he rose to prominence once he enrolled at The Ohio State University. He was a prodigy in sprinting and the high jump and during ‘The Olympics’ he won gold in relay, long jump, 200 metre sprint and 100 metre sprint to become one of the most iconic track and field athletes of all time. Owens was a great athlete and he has been an inspiration for many. We have compiled few of his popular quotations and sayings. Here is a collection of the renowned quotes and thoughts by Jesse Owens which have been curated from his work and life.
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
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
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.
