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
Florence Griffith Joyner quotes about
Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.
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 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.
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 have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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.
Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
I like being unconventional.
When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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.