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.
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.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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.
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
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'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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 don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
