If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
From Florence Griffith Joyner
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 like being unconventional.
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.
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've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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.
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.
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