Tag: Wilma Rudolph
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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. 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
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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
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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph
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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.
Wilma Rudolph
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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
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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.
Wilma Rudolph
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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.
Wilma Rudolph
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
Wilma Rudolph
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I believe in me more than anything in this world.
Wilma Rudolph
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But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there’s always a way to achieve your goals.
Wilma Rudolph