Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

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.

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

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

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.