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More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
i thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
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'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
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.
