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Althea Gibson

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

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"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."

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"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region."

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"We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto."

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"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing."

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"Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready."

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"When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights."

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"And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know."

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"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."
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"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."
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"Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown."
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"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."
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"In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are."
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