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More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
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.
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.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
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 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.
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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.
