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  1. The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us …
  2. When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing t…
  3. People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but…
  4. I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who w…
  5. Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the…
  6. 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 …
  7. It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be…
  8. 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…

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