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Marion Jones Biography

Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track and field athlete and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of the titles after admitting to steroid use. Jones did retain her three gold medals as a world champion from 1997 and 1999.

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I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.

Athlete, Jock, Jocks, Love

I'm an Internet junkie.

Internet, Junkie

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.

Athlete, Followed, Think, Thinking, Type, Years

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

Drug, Jones, Nobody, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Said, Using

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

Bad, Bad Hair, Bad Hair Day, Hair, Hard

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.

Break Up, Couple, Olympics, Sports, Years

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.

Days, Motivation, Softball, Sports, Three, Took

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.

Beats, Everything, Failure, Running, Thinking

You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason

Forget, People, Reason, Sometimes

I've set no world record.

Records, World, World Records, Set, Record

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Father, Involved, Mom, Mother

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.

Cover, Love, People, Perfect, Two

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

Dreamed, Everything, Fleet Street, Get Involved, Involved, Sweeney Todd

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

Drug, Express, Fact, Facts, Sport, Sports

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

Families, Our Family, Persons, Trust, World

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

Firsts, Games, Olympics, Sydney

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Against, Drug, Drugs, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Take, Taken

I like cooking - I make a good stir-fry and the family likes it when I make stewed chicken and macaroni and cheese.

Cheese, Cooking, Family, Likes, Macaroni

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.

Court, Greatness, Simply, Sport, Sports, Track