Wilma Rudolph Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Success, Sports, Accomplishment

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Goal, Mountain, Prime

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• 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.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Jobs, Husband, Adventure

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Florence, Ran

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• By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Running, Boys, Jumping

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• I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Running, Running Fast, Knows

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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 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

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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