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More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
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 believe in me more than anything in this world.
I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
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.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
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.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
