Use your bad moments to discover what makes you tremble. Use your good moments to find your road to inner peace.

Start believing everything, start achieving everything.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.’ 

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren&#39;t listening.

It&#39;s important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, &#39;There are no walls, only the ones we put up.&#39; My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.

I really do miss playing basketball. I don&#39;t play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Quotes by Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Written By Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Written By Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Written By Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Written By Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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