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.
— Jesse Owens Modern

Olympic athlete, Berlin 1936

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Autobiography

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1978

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44548.Jesse_Owens

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