Quote by Wilma Rudolph
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do somethin

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. – Wilma Rudolph

Other quotes by Wilma Rudolph

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. – Wilma Rudolph

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Age
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. – Wilma Rudolph

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Dreams
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I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person Im competing with is me. – Wilma Rudolph

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Freedom
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Failure
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. – Jonathan Kozol

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Failure

I dont know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, theyve got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. – Sam Donaldson

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Failure

You cant have any successes unless you can accept failure. – George Cukor

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Failure

Everybody keeps saying that Indias a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty. – Vijay Mallya

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Failure

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Our managers hadnt had that kind of success – the record company hadnt, we hadnt – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasnt it would be some kind of failure. – Roland Gift

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. – Aristotle

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