Althea Quotes

#1. I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Althea Gibson

#2. Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

Althea Gibson

#3. You know your duty and you are doing it. It isn't your fault if Althea can't appreciate that.

Robin Hobb

#4. Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

Robin Hobb

#5. Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Althea Gibson

#6. No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Althea Gibson

#7. To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd

Jon R. Michaelsen

#8. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

Lawrence Lessig

#9. She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.

Robin Hobb

#10. You were drunk. I wanted to hear the words when you were of sound mind. Women get drunk all the time and confess their undying love to me.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#11. I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Althea Gibson

#12. In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Althea Gibson

#13. Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea

Robin Hobb

#14. Every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they are constructions of possibilities; therefore they are pure bits of imagination, or fine ideas of our own ...

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#15. I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

Althea Gibson

#16. It seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but exceptional, a man not only capable of being a real poet, but a husband and father too.

Andre Dubus III

#17. Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

Althea Gibson

#18. When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday.

Robin Hobb

#19. I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

Althea Gibson

#20. What good does it do you to love?

Trisha Leigh

#21. Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

Ogden Nash

#22. When people say "How dumb do you think I am?" I answer "You can't possibly be as dumb as I think you are." 09-19-2014

Jan Thomas

#23. The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be known.

Trisha Leigh

#24. Some of the most powerful antiseptic essential oils include lavender oil, tea tree oil, and clove oil.

Althea Press

#25. Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.

Raj Thackeray

#26. I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

Althea Gibson

#27. We can learn a lesson from the butterfly beginning it's life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly.

Heather Wolf

#28. Cassie's first thought when she saw the old woman was, What a marvelous thing plastic surgery is. The woman was younger than Althea, but looked fifty years older

Jude Deveraux

#29. From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

Althea Gibson

#30. Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom. LATIN PROVERB

Carl Sagan

#31. Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Althea Gibson

#32. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die. We always think we are going to live forever. The dying aspect we will never accept. The one thing about having this kind of warning is how you appreciate every single day of life.

Oscar De La Renta

#33. A dull animal rage boiled within him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#34. Althea was certain that they were both boys, because they were both so fierce and strong-willed, even while inside the womb.

Emigh Cannaday

#35. There's no need to make a big deal out of it," said Milo, but Glen was already moving towards the front door.
"I need to walk," he said. "I need to... I need to be free!"
And then he was gone, the door swinging closed behind him.
"What a dramatic young man," said Althea.

Derek Landy

#36. I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

Althea Gibson

#37. A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them. Look at her own daughters. Keffria, who only wanted someone to tell her what to do, and Althea, who only desired that she do her own will always."
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Robin Hobb

#38. In sports, you simply aren't 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

#39. The loser is always a part of the problem; the winner is always a part of the answer. The loser always has an excuse; the winner always has a program. The loser says it may be possible, but it's difficult; the winner says it may be difficult, but it's possible.

Althea Gibson