Janelle (Jane Ellen) Kirtley Godfrey (December 8, 1943 - April 28, 2017) was an American former World Champion water skier.
In 1959, at the age of 15, she was on the U.S. Women's National Water Ski Team and competed in Milan, Italy in 1959.
In 1960 she won overall in the Masters Water Ski Tournament, and she went on to win the World Championship in the 1961 World Tournament Women's Slalom Title[1] and the 1963 Tricks and Slalom.
[2] In 1961 she enrolled in the School of Nursing at St. Vincent's in Birmingham and then graduated in 1964.
And she would put this saying into practice in her daily life as viewed in this footage of Janelle trick skiing in Cypress Gardens, FL between the years 1958 and 1960 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlE0D0Q6G0Q