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The potential for greatness lives within us all.
Wilma Rudolph
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Wilma Rudolph
Age: 54 †
Born: 1940
Born: June 23
Died: 1994
Died: November 12
Athlete
Sprinter
Clarksville
Tennessee
Wilma Glodean Rudolph
Within
Underestimated
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Black
Underestimate
Olympics
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Olympian
More quotes by Wilma Rudolph
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
Wilma Rudolph
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
Wilma Rudolph
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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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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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
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.
Wilma Rudolph
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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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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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.
Wilma Rudolph
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Wilma Rudolph
'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
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
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
Wilma Rudolph
I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
Wilma Rudolph
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.
Wilma Rudolph
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Wilma Rudolph
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
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.
Wilma Rudolph
