More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
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.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
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.
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.
I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
