Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

I'm not a tortured soul.

When you're going through difficult times, like I was after the 2013-14 Ashes, you start thinking about different bits. Rugby is a huge passion of mine, a lot of my friends play.

My son, Sam, is 15 years old, and he's been a diabetic since he was 2. When you're a parent of a child with any kind of chronic illness, these things don't go away. You have a lot of good days, but some days you feel like you're losing bad.

I had a mental breakdown while doing my Ph.D. at Cambridge, soon after I cut off contact with my parents, and I started seeing the university counsellor, one of the best decisions I ever made. There's something very nourishing in setting aside an hour a week to talk.

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

It's OK to not be OK.

I feel like everybody's got their health issues and their battles, and yeah, mine go up and down. It's never really over.

I just make sure that people around me are fine. There is not a lot I can do anymore. Just support the people. Be with them. But at the end, I've got to go play. And after, we can talk again. But I have to kind of block it for two hours.

For me when I go in and audition for things, I just let them go as soon as I leave. I can 't take them home with me. That's something that my mom actually taught my sister and me from the time we were kids.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.