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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
Wilma Rudolph
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Wilma Rudolph
Age: 54 †
Born: 1940
Born: June 23
Died: 1994
Died: November 12
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Clarksville
Tennessee
Wilma Glodean 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.
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But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
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I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
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I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
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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.
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I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
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When the sun is shining I can do anything no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
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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.
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
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I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
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What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
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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.
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I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
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