Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand and have yet to be seriously challenged. During the late 1980s she became a popular figure in international track and field because of her record-setting performances and flashy personal style. She died in her...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth21 December 1959
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.
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.
When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.
I like being unconventional.
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.
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.