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Athlete Inspirational Quotes (2119)

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It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
Aimee Mullins
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
Aimee Mullins
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
Aimee Mullins
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Beauty is not skin-deep it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
Aimee Mullins
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Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
Aimee Mullins
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I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'
Aimee Mullins
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
Aimee Mullins
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
Aimee Mullins
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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
Wilma Rudolph
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
Wilma Rudolph
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I believe in me more than anything in this world.
Wilma Rudolph
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When the sun is shining I can do anything no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
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No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
Wilma Rudolph
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I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
Wilma Rudolph
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When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.
Wilma Rudolph
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I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
Wilma Rudolph
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I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
Wilma Rudolph
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'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
Wilma Rudolph
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Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.
Wilma Rudolph
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph
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It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
Wilma Rudolph
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I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.
Wilma Rudolph
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Home is wherever we are if there's love here too
Jack Johnson
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