Index4INDEX Card 302: Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1
It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
For more about Jackie Joyner-Kersee, keep reading....
About the Quote
While it's important to know history, it's usually counter-productive to relive history. Circumstances change. What's done is done and can't be undone. Dealing with the past keeps us frozen in place, so we never get to move toward the future.
Even worse is being in a position to do something only to end up not doing it. This leads to second-guessing which can last for the rest of one's life. When it's time to win a basketball game, worse than the missed shot is the shot not taken. A guy could spend the rest of his life single and never married, but it should not be because he failed to ask the beauty queen out for a date. If she rejects his request for a date, at least he tried. If the guy never asks her out, then he will always kick himself for being weak.
Some Information about Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (née Jacqueline Joyner) was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, US on 1962-March-3.
Better known as Jackie-Joyner-Kersee, he is considered by many people to be the greatest female athlete in history. She is best known as the first female to score 7,000 points in the heptathlon (one competition consisting of 7 separate events).
Since childhood, Jackie Joyner showed tremendows enthusiasm for athletics and sports. As a high school student, she won four consecutive National Junior Pentathlon championships. She was as successful as a student as she was as an athlete, graduating near the top of her class in high school. In high school she competed in volleyball, basketball, and track and field. During her junior year of high school she set the Illinois high school record for the girls' long jump at 20 feet, 7.5 inches (6.68 meters). Her high school success made it possible for her to earn a scholarship to attend the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At UCLA, she initially focuses on basketball and the long jump in track and field.
Jackie Joyner began training for the heptathlon in 1981 as a freshman student, building on her heptathlon experience in high school. She was training under the tutelage of the UCLA assistant track coach Bob Kersee. They entered into a relationship, and they married each other in 1986. Before they married, Jackie Joyner competed at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games. She overcame a pulled hamstring to win the Silver Medal in the Olympic Heptahlon, just missing the Gold Medal by 5 points. She graduated from UCLA in 1985.
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