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If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. - Jesse Owens
" "If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
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About Jesse Owens
James Cleveland Owens (12 September 1913 – 31 March 1980) was an African-American athlete and civic leader; winner of 4 Gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany; he used the name Jesse beginning in childhood, when he gave his name as "J.C. Owens" and was misheard.
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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens
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