Jackie Joyner Kersee

If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Rules are meant to be broken.

Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.