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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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Sprinter
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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By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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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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No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
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I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.
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I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
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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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But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
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I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.
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I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
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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 can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
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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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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 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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