'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.