More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
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.
i thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
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.
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
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 tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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.
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.
