More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
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.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
i thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
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.
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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.
