Jesse Owens Quotes on Friendship
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Another old friend gone!
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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.
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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?
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Friendships are born on the field of athletic strife and the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.