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.
Althea GibsonI always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.
Althea GibsonIn the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
Althea GibsonI hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.
Althea Gibson