Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.