List of Wilma Rudolph Quotes

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.

I Thought I'd Never Get To See That. Florence Griffith Joyner -- Every Time She Ran, I Ran.

I Don't Know Why I Run So Fast. I Just Run.

But When You Come From A Large, Wonderful Family, There's Always A Way To Achieve Your Goals.

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.

By The Time I Was 12 I Was Challenging Every Boy In Our Neighborhood At Running, Jumping, Everything.

I'm In My Prime. There's No Goal Too Far, No Mountain Too High.

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.

Sometimes It Takes Years To Really Grasp What Has Happened To Your Life.

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.

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.

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.