More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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.
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. 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.
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 can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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.
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.
