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Quote by Althea Gibson
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. – Althea Gibson

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In sports, you simply arent considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best. – Althea Gibson

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Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields dont really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. – Althea Gibson

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In America, we have three major sports – baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then theres things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. – Maurice Greene

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I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes. – Chris Moneymaker

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If you got the game, you got the game. Thats why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. – Shaquille ONeal

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We really love all sports, but we dont think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities. – Peter Farrelly

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