Althea Gibson Quotes

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

Althea Gibson

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• Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Love
  • Enjoy
  • Place

• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • American
  • Community
  • Sports

• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Individuals

• On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Star
  • Sports

• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Sports
  • Won

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Life is about timing.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Timing

• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • People
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Looking

• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Game
  • Cool

• I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Sports
  • Car
  • Dreams

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Growing

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • School
  • Together

• I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Kitchen
  • Kid

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Good
  • Kids
  • You

• I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

  

  Alicia Silverstone

• There are many times I don't feel like going to work out, but I know if I do, I'll feel better.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Work

• When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

  

  Marya Hornbacher
  • Dark

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

  

  Althea Gibson
  • Sports