What it takes to be

Mar 17
08:17

2016

Jason Walter

Jason Walter

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Encouraging Kids to do Better on the Field and, ultimately, in the classroom. Is your child a sports aficionado? In this post, we have garnered some of the most inspiring words of Jesse Owen to help you inspire your kids.

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  • Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded,What it takes to be  Articles friends gather no dust.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • One chance is all you need.
  • A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
  • Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
  • The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
  • Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
  • I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
  • If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
  • A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
  • Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
  • The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
  • It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.
  • When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?

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