More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
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.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
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.
I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
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.
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
