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

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

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

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both.

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.