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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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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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Practice
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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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Sports
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I would never encourage my children to be athletes – first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate. – Bill James

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Sports

As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget. – Junior Seau

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Sports

I dont know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. – Richard M. Nixon

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Sports

These are my new shoes. Theyre good shoes. They wont make you rich like me, they wont make you rebound like me, they definitely wont make you handsome like me. Theyll only make you have shoes like me. Thats it. – Charles Barkley

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Sports

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I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. – David Duchovny

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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now its really bad because everything weve done is de-humanizing education. Its destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. – William Glasser

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Education

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. – June Jordan

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Attitude

Everyone has determination – its a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesnt care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way were very, very different. – Dannii Minogue

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Success