Jesse Owens — "I believe in myself."

"I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted."

"I always kept my eyes on the finish line."

"I realized a long time ago that you don't have to be a big man to be a giant."

"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted."

"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."