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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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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 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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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.
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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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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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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
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I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
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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'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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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 tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
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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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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
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No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
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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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