Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
- Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.
- The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.
- The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want…
- "Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite…
- The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
- As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been…
- If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.
- There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me.
- For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to…
- I always keep myself in a position of being a student.
- All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed…
- Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.
- Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
- It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
- Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would…
- Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
- What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've…
- Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader.
- I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well.
- I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me.…