Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

He that will not look forward must look behind.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

One who does not look ahead remains behind.

You can't operate by hindsight.

You know the famous quote, sometimes you have to be ready so you don't have to get ready. I do a lot of things that, it's like, off the camera, that a lot of people don't see me do.

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

I always looked ahead.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

What we prepare for is what we shall get.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well.

Foreknowledge is power.

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social .... The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.