“I believe in me more than anything in this world.” — Wilma Rudolph Quote

“I believe in me more than anything in this world.”

“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.”

“My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.”

“When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free.”

“No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.”

“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.”

“I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.”

“A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.”

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”

“I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.”

“The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.”

“You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.”