More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
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.
When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
i thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
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 can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
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.
