Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.
Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, and Sonja Steptoe. A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete. Warner Books, 1997, p. 142.
At the time, some House Republicans had taken an untenable and unpopular position and forced the government to shut down by not passing laws authorizing the expenditures. He had been asked his advice for President Obama who seemed to be winning this particular political squabble.
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee is an American retired track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals in those two events at four different Olympic Games. Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time. She is on the Board of Directors for USA Track & Field (U.S.A.T.F.), the national governing body of the sport.
