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More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
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.
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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.
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
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.
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
i thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
