Quotes About Althea Gibson

#1. 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

#2. What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

Virginia Woolf

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

Shirley Williams

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

Althea Gibson

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

Althea Gibson

#9. Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

James Sheridan Knowles

#10. I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

Ryan Phillippe

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

Althea Gibson

#12. After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

Barack Obama

#13. I've been beautiful all along.

Soman Chainani

#14. Nothing can break the chains you have on my heart. For you are Wonderland.

A.G. Howard

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

Althea Gibson

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

Althea Gibson

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

Althea Gibson

#18. 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

#19. Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

James Cook

#20. As mankind 'matures,' as it becomes more possible to be frank in the scrutiny of the self and others and in the publication of one's findings, biography and autobiography will take the place of fiction for the investigation and discussion of character.

H.G.Wells

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

Althea Gibson

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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