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“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 you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Interview (1971); also quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz in ESPN SportsCentury
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 36bb8f2a935c1d44beb014701914cf7072e401ac1da5d8f156b07cf075312866
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