"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."
-Althea Gibson
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"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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