The hogs and the cows would get fat on them.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

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.

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...

If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

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...

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...

To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of...

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.

Just ironge the people who tend mock at you

One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his...

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

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...

It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler,

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.

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

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn’t be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it’s close.

We have no idea what we’ll find, really. This area has never been examined. This portion of Mud Creek has never been studied.

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.

Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.

One chance is all you need.