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.
More Quotes from Althea Gibson:
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
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
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
Althea Gibson
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
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
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.
Althea Gibson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Sports Quotes, Success QuotesBased on Keywords: fluke
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Robert A. Heinlein
We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.
Jena Malone