Wilma Rudolph famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Inspirational #Determination #Hiking
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Winning
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Running #Air #Feelings
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Sports #Struggle #Believe
My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Inspirational #Motivational #Running
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Happiness #Success #Perseverance
The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Greatness #Potential For Greatness
I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Sports #Pneumonia #Average
I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
-- Wilma Rudolph

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

#Happiness #Success #Perseverance
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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Winning #Gold #Three
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Cities #Discipline #Trying
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Motivational #Determination #Giving Up
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Believe #World #I Believe
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Success #Sports #Accomplishment
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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Change #Years #White
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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Jobs #Queens #Kings
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Running #Boys #Jumping
I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Florence #Ran
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Goal #Way #Wonderful
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Mother #Believe #Athlete
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.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Sports #Dream #Struggle
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
-- Wilma Rudolph

#Running

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