« All Athlete Quotes · Jackie Joyner-Kersee's Page
Athlete Quotes by Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
- 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…
- I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
- People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
- The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
- Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order…
- The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses…
More Athlete Quotes
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably… — Tyra Banks
- The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen… — Roger Bannister
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister