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

- Florence Griffith Joyner

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

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 …

- Florence Griffith Joyner

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

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

- Florence Griffith Joyner

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

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

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

- Florence Griffith Joyner

I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

- Florence Griffith Joyner