More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
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.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
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.
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
