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More Quotes by 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.
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.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
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.
i thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
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.
