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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

Topics: Car Early Like Morning Muscle Run Up Want Warm Well You

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

~Florence Griffith Joyner

Topics: Being Being Different Conventional Different Like Me Things Uniquely

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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.

~Florence Griffith Joyner

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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

~Florence Griffith Joyner

Topics: Because Believe Does Else Impossible I Believe I Believe In

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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.

~Florence Griffith Joyner

Topics: America Athletics Available Council Day Every Every Day Just Just One Like Make Me One Day President Sports Week Youth

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

~Florence Griffith Joyner

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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

~Florence Griffith Joyner

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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.

~Florence Griffith Joyner

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I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

~Florence Griffith Joyner

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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.

~Florence Griffith Joyner

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: December 21st, 1959

Died: September 21st, 1998

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