Madeline in the Media
Today Show
“The Lord said it the best way. He said, 'If you want to be the first, then you've got to be a servant to all.' And that's why I went back into my sport, to serve my peers, and those upcoming…
CNN
Madeline Manning Mims, a former Olympian, is now a chaplain to athletes. CNN's Richard Allen Greene reports.
USA Today
"I didn't realize I was becoming an overcomer, forcing myself to work through the sickness, to get stronger," Mims said. "I became a champion not by being better than someone, but persevering through the hard times, through the sickly times."
VISA
“Instead of a scenario where someone has to fail in order for someone else to succeed, Olympian runner Madeline Manning Mims states that we need to start lifting each other up; when we give everybody a chance, she remarks, we've all made it. VISA promises a network that works to elevate small businesses in order to give more people a fair shot.”
Self
“If you want to be a leader and the very best of the best, you have to be willing to pay the price. It doesn’t just come laid out on a platter—it comes with a lot of hard work, sweat, and tears.”
NBC WVTM 13
"When I look at the years, the 16 years international career in Track & Field and then reaching out for the last over almost 30 years now to athletes," she said. " It's what I was born to do. You know, a lot of times when we find our gifts and our talents, we want to look at it for ourselves, but it's not. It's for other people.”