More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.
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.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
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.
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.
