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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.
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.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
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.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
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.
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
