The mental part is the hardest part.

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"Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Belief

"The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Happiness

"There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Motivation

"Age is not a barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Belief in Self

"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Aspirations

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity