The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

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i thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

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The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

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I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

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I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

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I believe in me more than anything in this world.

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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

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