A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. |
Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either. |
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. |
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. |
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it. |
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world. |
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. |
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. |
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up. |
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. |
If it's clay, it pretty much means it was here before 10,000 B.C.. Most archaeologists don't believe humans were in North America that early. |
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard |
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. |
It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler, |
Just ironge the people who tend mock at you |