Florence Griffith Joyner

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

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.

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.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

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

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

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 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.