Quotes by Althea Gibson

“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.”

“Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields dont really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.”

“I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, its 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.”

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

“Being champion is all well and good, but you cant eat a crown.”

“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.”

“I dont 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.”

“No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.”

“I had to fight for what I achieved.”

“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”

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

If I made it its 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.

No matter what accomplishments you make somebody helped you.

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.

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