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More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
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 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.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
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.
I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
