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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

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Car, Warm, Like, Fitness

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

- Florence Griffith Joyner

Me, Like, Conventional, Being Different

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

Run, Been, Frustrated, Practices

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

Love, Give, Always, Weights

I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

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Best, Habits, Too Late, Ice Cream

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

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Fast, Want, Like, Train

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

Hands, Doing, Projects, Contests

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.

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Used, Like, Wear, Sock

I like being unconventional.

- Florence Griffith Joyner

Like, Being, Unconventional

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

Sports, Week, Like, Athletics

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

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Impossible, Else, Does, I Believe

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

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Ghetto, Reason, Direct, Main Reason

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

- Florence Griffith Joyner

Excellence, Give, Move, Anticipation

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

Cheaper, Buy, Staying, Wrong

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

Mom, Wait, Them, Heels

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.

- Florence Griffith Joyner

Love, Listening, Always, Encourage

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

- Florence Griffith Joyner

More, Tells, Anyone, Listening

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