More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
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.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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.
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.