How Did Jesse Owens Motivate African Americans

How Jesse Owens Motivated other athletes

When discovering my topic on what would interest me related to African American athletes; I came to realize that athlete have major transformations through different ways of motivating one another. Though many athletes are motivated through materialistic items, a number are also motivated through outside sources and personal influence. Jesse Owens was a talented individual that was noticed by his gym coach, just a hard worker, due to that he was asked to join different types of clubs. Jesse Owens is a very successful athlete that brought motivation to other athletes, from his upbringing. He lived by this quote "We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot
Jesse Owens born and raised (where) less fortunate than many. He was a son of a sharecropper and a grandson of slaves. Growing up in a small community, he didn’t have a lot of advantages due to the lack of opportunities provided for African Americans. As a result, his motivation stemmed from prior athletes in his community. Many of these athletes, accomplish greatness through these determination and strides through adversity. Jesse Owens himself was very well respected. Owens gym teacher asked Jesse if would like to be on the track team, because he noticed his hard work ethics but because Jesse had to work after school, he was not able to join the team. Jesses coach told him as long as he continued to work hard he would be willing to offer to train Jesse in the morning before school, and Owens took him up on the offer. Buy the coach believing in Jesse he believed in himself, even though he knew that he was an even sick child, also his coach brought him breakfast every morning so he would keep up his strength and not get sick so often. Jesse trained so hard and motivated his team to the point that not he was noticed but his whole team was recognized by the whole town. (found the article,