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.
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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
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
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
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. They say things like they don't want men opening doors for them anymore, and they don't want men lighting their cigarettes for them anymore. Big deal. Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country. Black women don't quibble about things that are not important.
Wilma Rudolph
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph
The triumph cannot 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
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