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Madeline Manning Quotes

born 1948 United States

Madeline Manning-Mims (January 11, 1948) is a former American runner and Olympic champion. Between 1967 and 1981 she won ten national titles and set a number of American records.

United States
Sportspeople

Random Madeline Manning quote

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It has helped to heal him – he is a better person because I walked in love toward him.

I didn’t know that I opened the door for women. But now I look at it and you see all these women of different colors just topping not only the middle distance that I ran but the distance and ultra distances. That was pretty cool that I was able to do that.

I would get threatening letters … saying ‘You shouldn’t be there, and why don’t you move out the way and let a white girl do it.

I was very young, I was a sophomore in college, was on a team that had some of the top sprinters in the world, the TigerBelles.

What kept me steady and balanced was to know that God created me to be there – he believed in me so I decided to run for his glory. It was a change in direction for my sports development.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Madeline Manning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.