The only victory that counts is the one over yourself
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself
„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, Champion Athlete (1990)
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part;
the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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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Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics.
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Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
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Quotes
By 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?»
«We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.»
«Friendships are born on the field of athletic strife and the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.»
«Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing it.»
«For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.»
«I always loved running – it was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.»
«If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.»
«One chance is all you need.»
«People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and a laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just 10 seconds.»
«I’d noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we’d play games where there was running or jumping.» *
–on junior high track coach Charles Riley
«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.» *
«He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.» *
–on Ohio State University track coach Larry Snyder
«It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.» *
«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.» *
«To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first ‘second’ is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final ‘second’ – the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete – is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you’re made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what’s happening.» *
«I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.» *
–on his final leap in long-jump competition, a record-breaking 26 feet, 5 and 5/16 inches
«It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere – one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.» *
–on his Olympic achievements
«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.» *
«It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.» *
–on his race with thoroughbred Julio McCaw at halftime of a soccer game
«The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred’s ear.» *
–on how to beat a racehorse
«Well, I couldn’t play an instrument. I’d just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can’t carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly – That was big time for blacks.» *
–on being the bandleader for a 12-piece black touring band.
«We’d get into these little towns and tell ’em to get out the fastest guy in town and Jesse Owens would spot him ten yards and beat him.» *
–on participating in baseball games as the grand finale
«People who worked with me or knew me still called me the ‘world’s fastest human’ because I almost never stopped. I’d found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.» *
–on his offers for work 14 years after his Olympic victories
«It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.» *
–on his world records being beaten
«The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers – weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there’s money inside. There’s where the power lies.» *
–said to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who had given the black power salute while receiving their Olympic medals
«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.»
–from his 1972 book: I Have Changed
«In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.» *
About Jesse Owens
«You worked – possibly slaved is the word – Jesse, for many years for this. And you deserve everything they’re saying about you and doing for you.» *
–Minnie Ruth Solomon, Jesse’s wife
«Owens doesn’t so much take over [a room] as envelop it. He is friendly to all, outgoing and gracious.» *
–A reporter, about Jesse’s public speaking skills
* Quote source: Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete, by Tony Gentry
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Джесси Оуэнс
Дата рождения: 12. Сентябрь 1913
Дата смерти: 31. Март 1980
Другие имена: Jesse James Cleveland Owens
Джеймс Кливленд Оуэнс — американский легкоатлет, специализировавшийся на спринтерском беге и прыжках в длину.
На Олимпийских играх 1936 года стал четырёхкратным олимпийским чемпионом, выиграв дистанции 100 и 200 метров, эстафету 4×100 метров и прыжки в длину. Впоследствии это достижение смог повторить только Карл Льюис на Играх 1984 года. Победы афроамериканца Оуэнса на Олимпиаде в Берлине были символическим ударом по расовой теории нацистской Германии.
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As quoted in «Owens pierced a myth» http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html (2005), by Larry Schwartz, ESPN SportsCentury
On the congratulations given by German athlete Lutz Long, a competitor in the long jump, who in some accounts he credited with giving him some friendly advice that helped him to win against him; as quoted in «Owens pierced a myth» by Larry Schwartz http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html in ESPN SportsCentury (2005)
Контексте: 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.
The Tampa Tribune (1 April 1980)
As quoted in Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0688011632 (1970)
1970s
As quoted in People In America : «Jesse Owens» by Barbara Dash http://web.archive.org/web/20071219045105/http://voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2002-06/a-2002-06-07-2-1.cfm on VOA (7 June 2002)
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
On his wife, Minnie Ruth Solomon
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Контексте: She was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn’t love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me … and she said she would.
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Контексте: It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards. … The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred’s ear.
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Контексте: To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first «second» is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final «second» — the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete — is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you’re made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what’s happening.
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
I Have Changed (1972)
1970s
On his final record-breaking leap in the long-jump competition.
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Interview (1971); also quoted in «Owens pierced a myth» by Larry Schwartz http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html in ESPN SportsCentury
1970s
On having his world records beaten
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
Said to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who had given the black power salute while receiving their Olympic medals
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)