Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Glodean Rudolphwas an American track and field sprinter, who competed in the 100 and 200 meters dash. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth23 June 1940
CitySaint Bethlehem, TN
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
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I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.
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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.
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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.
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I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
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By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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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.
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I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
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But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
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I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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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.
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.