"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."
"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."
"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."
Jesse Owens salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, after defeating Germany’s Lutz Long during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Owens’ efforts in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 25 May 1935 at the Big Ten Championships (a leading annual USA intercollegiate athletics meet) stand alone in all sport.
The 25-cent Jesse Owens stamp was issued July 6, 1990. The 32-cent Jesse Owens stamp was issued September 10, 1998.