Words matter. These are the best Wilma Rudolph Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
After the scarlet fever and the whooping cough, I remember I started to get mad about it all… I went through the stage of asking myself, ‘Wilma, what is this existence all about? Is it about being sick all the time? It can’t be.’ So I started getting angry about things, fighting back in a new way with a vengeance.
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
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.
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
Down South, there was the old ‘ladies-don’t-do-such-things’ way of thinking. You couldn’t be a lady and a good athlete at the same time.
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there’s always a way to achieve your goals.
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can’t go back to living the way you did before because you’ve been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can’t do a nine to five job.
When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free.
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.
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 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.
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.
No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I’ve always been positive, no matter what happened.
I don’t know why I run so fast. I just run.
I was six years old before I realized that there was something wrong with me… But I did have this crooked left leg, and my left foot was turned inward.
