My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
In plain words
Two people told her opposite things. She chose to believe her mum.
Where these words come from
- 62% sureLots of sources credit Wilma Rudolph with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- From her 1977 autobiography Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph, per biography.com's direct citation; the primary text itself wasn't accessed.
