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Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
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.
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.
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.... (more Althea Gibson quotes)
In 2000, Althea was put at No.30 in Sports Illustrated for Women's list of "100 Greatest Female Athletes".
Althea was inducted into the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971.
In 1984, Althea was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame.
Althea served on the New Jerseys State Athletics Control Board from 1985 until 1988.
Her autobiography is called Born to Win: The Authorized Autobiography of Althea Gibson.... (more Althea Gibson trivia)
| Born to Win: The Authorized Biography of Althea Gibson by Frances Clayton Gray, Yanick Rice Lamb, Bill Cosby, and Venus Williams | |
| Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters by Cecil Harris and Larryette Kyle-DeBose | |
| The Match: Althea Gibson and a Portrait of a Friendship by Bruce Schoenfeld |
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