Quote by Althea Gibson
In sports, you simply arent considered a real champion until you h

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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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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I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isnt really there yet. – Claudio Reyna

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For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America. – Elle Macpherson

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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. – Lewis H. Lapham

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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. – Knute Rockne

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