Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields dont really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. – Althea Gibson
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
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. – Althea Gibson
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex. – George Bernard Shaw