1913 – 1980 • American • Athlete
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.
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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.
