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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Jesse Owens
Nine, Yards, Three
Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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
Sports, Dog, Athlete
"Jesse Owens: Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, Heather Lehr Wagner, 2009.

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.

Jesse Owens
Sports, Running, Mother
Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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

Jesse Owens
Sports, Running, Athlete
Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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