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More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
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.
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.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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.
I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
