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Wilma Rudolph quotes

Ocupation: Athlete

Life: June 23, 1940 - November 12, 1994

Birthday: June 23

Death: November 12

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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Topics: Inspirational, Determination, Hiking, Sun Shines, Recipe For Success

Quotation Wilma Rudolph Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of Quotes

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

source: - Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

Topics: Sports, Motivational Sports, Winning, Undefeated, Great Running

Quotation Wilma Rudolph My doctor told me I would never walk again My Quotes

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

source: - Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

Topics: Running, Air, Feelings, Fresh Air

Quotation Wilma Rudolph Winning is great sure but if you are really going Quotes

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

source: - "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

Topics: Sports, Struggle, Believe

Quotation Wilma Rudolph When the sun is shining I can do anything no Quotes

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Topics: Mother, Motherhood, Doctors

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.

source: - "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Influence And Power, Inspirational Athlete

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

Topics: Happiness, Success, Perseverance

The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Topics: Greatness, Potential For Greatness

I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.

Topics: Confidence, Being Yourself, Important

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.

Topics: Sports, Pneumonia, Average, Braces, Polio

I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.

Topics: Mind

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

Topics: Happiness, Success, Perseverance, I Believe In Me

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.

Topics: Winning, Gold, Three

No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.

Topics: Matter, Helping, Accomplish

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.

Topics: Cities, Discipline, Trying, City Streets

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

Topics: Goal, Mountain, Prime

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.

Topics: Motivational, Happiness, Success

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

source: - Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

Topics: Motivational, Determination, Giving Up, Determination And Persistence, Will And Determination

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

Topics: Believe, World, I Believe

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Topics: Life, Inspirational Life, Years

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

Topics: Success, Sports, Accomplishment, Olympic Medals, Gold Medals

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.

source: - Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

Topics: Change, Years, White, Life Style

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.

Topics: Jobs, Queens, Kings, Kings And Queens, World Famous

By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.

Topics: Running, Boys, Jumping

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

Topics: Florence, Ran

But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.

Topics: Goal, Way, Wonderful, Wonderful Family

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Topics: Mother, Believe, Athlete, Braces

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.

Topics: Sports, Dream, Struggle

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

Topics: Running, Running Fast

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

source: - "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

Topics: Mother, Doctors, Belief

I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.

Topics: America, Champion, Would Be

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.

Topics: People, Role Models, Trying

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