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.
I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God. - Florence Griffith Joyner
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
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.
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
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 …
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
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.
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
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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
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.
If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men. - Florence Griffith Joyner
If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore. - Florence Griffith Joyner
When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.
I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them. - Florence Griffith Joyner
I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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