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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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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 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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I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. – Mike Tyson

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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. – Billie Jean King

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People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest — people understand that. – Don Murray

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Well, Im not a big sports fan. – Jeff Bridges

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