Marion Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous
-- Marion Jones

#Hair #Bad Hair Day
Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.
-- Marion Jones

#Get Involved
I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is.
-- Marion Jones

#Softball #Sports #Motivation
When I'm home, I'm relaxed.
-- Marion Jones

#Home #Relaxed
I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.
-- Marion Jones

#Athlete #Jocks
My career has always been one of the most important things, but after having a baby you find that it drops down on the totem pole.
-- Marion Jones

#Baby #Careers #Important
I loved having my baby inside of me, but I was very happy when he was finally here.
-- Marion Jones

#Baby #My Baby #Very Happy
I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.
-- Marion Jones

#Hurt #Sorry #Pain
I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.
-- Marion Jones

#Sports #Inspirational Sports #Track
You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason
-- Marion Jones

#People #Forget #Sometimes
The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.
-- Marion Jones

#Break Up #Sports #Couple
But I don't believe in guilt by association.
-- Marion Jones

#Believe #Guilt #Association
I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.
-- Marion Jones

#Running #Failure #Thinking
Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.
-- Marion Jones

#Sports #Greatness #Track
I'm an Internet junkie.
-- Marion Jones

#Internet #Junkie
I've set no world record.
-- Marion Jones

#Records #World
Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will
-- Marion Jones

#Drug #Performance Enhancing Drugs #Said
I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.
-- Marion Jones

#Taken #Drug #Performance Enhancing Drugs
I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.
-- Marion Jones

#Games #Olympics #Firsts
I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.
-- Marion Jones

#Athlete #Thinking #Years
I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.
-- Marion Jones

#Sports #Drug #Facts
My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
-- Marion Jones

#Mom #Mother #Father
I like cooking - I make a good stir-fry and the family likes it when I make stewed chicken and macaroni and cheese.
-- Marion Jones

#Cooking #Likes #Cheese
Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.
-- Marion Jones

#Love #Two #People
We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
-- Marion Jones

#Trust #World #Our Family
A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasnt such a big fan.
-- Marion Jones

#Love Is #Fans #Bigs
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
-- Marion Jones

#Sports #Children #Champion

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