“If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.”
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens 
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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.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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