"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
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― Florence Griffith Joyner
More From Florence Griffith Joyner
- "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."
- "I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don’t try to be like me. Be better than me."
- "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."
More In Mom
- "I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I’m just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I’m doing."― Rachael Ray
- "So if you’re a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation."― Sanjay Kumar
- "My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she’ll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it."― Chloe Moretz