3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee When I was in elementary school, we weren’t allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA’s first NCAA title in track.
3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Growing up in the time of Title IX – it was passed when I was 10 – I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women’s sports. Of course I didn’t know it at the time.
3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it’s only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It’s about being fit for life.
3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee I do not take steroids. I never have. It’s sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don’t do that. That’s not me. I wouldn’t feel like a human being.
3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
