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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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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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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 knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
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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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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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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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No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
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I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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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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When the sun is shining I can do anything no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
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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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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
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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 believe in me more than anything in this world.
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I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
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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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The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
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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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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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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
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