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Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes


A retired American athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the women's heptathlon as well as in the women's long jump.
Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the women's heptathlon as well as in the women's long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those four different events. Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th century, just ahead of Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

Here are some famous quotes by Jackie Joyner-Kersee. 

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

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The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

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For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.