“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.” — Jesse Owens

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.

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.