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More Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
i thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
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.
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.
Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.
