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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- Jesse Owens
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- As quoted in Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man (1970)
- Culture / tradition
- African American
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- ✓ Verified source
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