Wilma Rudolph Quotes
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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…
Chance
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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
Believe
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
Great
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I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Far
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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…
Accomplish
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My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Believed
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
Fear
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'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
Been
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But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
Achieve
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I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
Every Time
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By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
Boy
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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…
Ask
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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…
Back Home
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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…
Average
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The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Each
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I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
Funny
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No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
Accomplish
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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.…
All
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I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
Fast
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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Attitude
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