Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

I prefer to work when there are people against whom I have to struggle.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

I've gotten resistance for my entire career.

I ain't trying to fight for no title.

Everything's a battle.

I want to fight as much as I can.

Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

I like shows where, like, there's a team that they're against the world.

It's kind of fun when it's you versus them.

Everything is a battle with this band.

Struggle

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

I want the big fights.

We're competitors.

Competition exists everywhere.

Of course defenders will try to provoke me - that is their job.

Everyone is out there to beat me, so I go up against every single player to have a battle.

It's hard if people don't want to fight me.

There are some athletes who don't like me.

There are always more people to prove wrong.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.