Quotes by Florence Griffith Joyner - Page 1

I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Unconventional
Being Like
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Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Running
Injury
Training
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I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Faith
Hard Work
Praying
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Believe
Doe
Impossible
Because
Believe I Believe Because
Does
Believe Impossible I Believe
Else
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Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Change
Smile
Action
Life Changing
Taken For Granted
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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Running
Men
Want
Run
Fast
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I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Believe
Drug
Taken
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Motivational
Athlete
Positivity
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Listening
Just
More
Me
Any
Me More Anything
Tells
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Being Different
Conventional
Different
Uniquely
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Running
Car
Fitness
Morning
Want
Warm
Like
Muscle
You
Run
Early
Well
Up
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Direct
Ghetto
Parent
Path
Reason
Successful
Wanted
Helped
Parents
Main
Main Reason
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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.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Attention
Numbers
People
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Give Me
Giving
Needed
Rooms
Weight
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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.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Firsts
Looks
Sight
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Different
Hair
School
Sock
Leg
Teased
Wore
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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.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Mom
Hair
Heels
High Heels
Mess
Stockings
Wait
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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.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Inspirational
Motivational
Athlete
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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.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Athlete
Firsts
Looks
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Dream
Kids
Talking
Dreams Love Me
Try
Beyond
Working
Reach
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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.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Cream
Eating
Ice
Ice Cream
Late
Never Too Late
Old Habits
Too Late
Work Out
Change Best Work
Days
Butter
Habits
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That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Athletics
Available
Council
Just One
One Day
Youth
Sports Me Day
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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.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Running
Moving
Oxygen
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People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Cheaper
Cost
Fast Food
People
Staying
Thinking
Vegetables
Family Money Food
Buy
Corner
Fast
Walk
Shape
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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Basketball
Brother
Contests
Football
Projects
Racing
Brothers
Farthest
Street
Physical
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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Dream
Anticipation
Concentration
Excellence
Intense
Joyous
Moving
Sadness
Track
Move On
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
Florence Griffith Joyner / Track And Field Athlete
Running
Block
Cry
Frustrated
Practice
Ran
Restructure
Blocks
Master
Instead
Practices
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