I’ve always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they’d give me the strength I needed. Florence Griffith Joyner Read Quote
I don’t do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don’t believe in them. Florence Griffith Joyner Read Quote
Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different. Florence Griffith Joyner Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Florence Griffith Joyner Read Quote
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. Florence Griffith Joyner Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote