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Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

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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 from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

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

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I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

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Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.

Sports, Mother, Running, Sun, Alike, Brothers

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

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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.

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