More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
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 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 triumph can't be had without the struggle.
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.
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 thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
