4 Jesse Owens Quotes on Friendship

Jesse Owens quotes on friendship

1. Another old friend gone!

8. 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 a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II.

10. We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

25. Friendships are born on the field of athletic strife and the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.