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More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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.
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.
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.
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
